Part of speech: prefix
is prefixed to v-s and deverbal n-s, chief conveying the sense of: “separation, destruction, loss, change, etc”
Etymology
[← Prot-Germ *fra-, also *far-, *fer-; OE for- (Mod E for-); O Fris for-, far-; O Sax for-, far-; Dt ver-; OHG far-, fir-, fer- (Mod G ver-); O Icel for- ← Indo-Europ *pro- “before, in front”; Sanskr pra- pref; Avest fra- pref; Anc Gr πρό, προ- pref; Lat pro- pref; O Slav про- pref (Russ про-); Lith pra- pref]
