Where does “foresto” come from?

foresto (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto foresti, from Esperanto for, from English Forth, from English Fourth, from Middle English fourthe, from Middle English ferthe, from Old English fēorþa, from Proto-West Germanic feurþō — fourth.

foresto (Esperanto): absence

Definitions

  1. absence

Ancestry of “foresto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoforestito be absent
2Esperantoforaway, far, gone
3EnglishForththat flows for about 47 km (29 miles) from The Trossachs through Stirling to the Firth of Forth on the North Sea
4EnglishFourthThe Fourth of July
5Middle EnglishfourtheAlternative form of ferthe
6Middle Englishferthefourth; One of four equal parts of a whole; a...
7Old Englishfēorþafourth
8Proto-West Germanicfeurþōfourth
9Proto-Germanicfedurþôfourth
Every word from Proto-Germanic fedurþô