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Etymology
From Middle English forthy, from Old English forþȳ, for þȳ [þe] (“because ”), forþon (“because, since”), from for + þȳ, þon (“by that, therefore”), instrumental case of þæt (“that”); Cognate with Yola farthoo (“why”), Old Norse fyrir því (at) (Danish & Norwegian fordi (“because”), Swedish för att). More at for, the, that.
Pronunciation
Adverb
forthy (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Therefore.
c. 1480, Robert Henryson, The Taill of Schir Chanticleir and the Foxe:Forthy as now, I purpose for to wryte... Forthy as now schortlie to conclude.
- (obsolete) For this, for this reason; on this account.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Aegloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Hugh Singleton, , →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender , London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, , 1586, →OCLC:Thomalin, have no care for-thy.
Conjunction
forthy
- Because, for sake, forwhy, since.
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