Forego
/fɔːrˈɡoʊ/noun
To go before; or, more commonly, to give up or do without.
Did you know?The “give up” meaning of forego is a later form influenced by the very similar word forgo, and the two have been tangled in English usage for centuries.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*per-
“to go through, forward, beyond”
Old English
OE
foregān
“to go before, precede”
Middle English
ME
forgon
“to precede; also, in some later use, to go without”
14th–15th Century
English
forego
“to go before, precede”
Modern English
English
forego
“to precede; often confused with forgo, meaning to abstain from or do without”