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foretoken en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English foretokne, fortacne, from Old English foretācn, foretācen (“foretoken, presage, prognostic, prodigy, sign, wonder”), equivalent to fore- + token. Cognate with Dutch voorteken, German Low German Vörteken, German Vorzeichen.

Meanings

1. A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentiment.
   • Therefore know you Gentlemen (to whom from my harte I wish that it may not proue ominous foretoke[n] of misfortune to haue mette with such a miser as I am) that whatsoeuer my sonne (ô God, that trueth binds me to reproch him with the name of my sonne) hath said, is true. 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Book II, ch. 10:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
foretokens	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (1)

bg предзнаменование (a premonitory sign; warning or presentiment)

foretoken en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English *foretoknen, fortaknen, from Old English foretācnian (“to foreshow”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
foretokening	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
foretokened	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
foretokened	Tense=Past		lexicographic
foretokens	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic

Deriveds

foretokening