Standard Lemma guide
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verb
To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
To forget.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive
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History
From Middle English forleten (“forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive”), from Old English forlǣtan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną (“to leave, dismiss”), equivalent to for- + let. Cognate with Scots forleet (“to forsake, abandon”), Saterland Frisian ferläite (“to forlet, abandon”), West Frisian forlitte (“to forlet”), Dutch verlaten (“to desert, abandon”), German verlassen (“to leave”), Swedish förlåta (“to excuse, forgive, remit”).
