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Forlet

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect. UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive

    "to forlet your sins"

  2. 2
    To forget. Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive

Etymology

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”).

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