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verb [w] Weak 棄たん forletten
[fəɹlɛtən] 
forsake
(abandon, renounce)
 Town Speech
 ⤷ Not dialect specific
Etymology
Native Germanic word, inherited from Old Saxon farlātan, from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną

Initially a class VII verb, but due to the adoption of an umlauted short vowel in the stem, it has become a weak verb
Derivatives of this word (1):
棄たんforsaken (abandoned or des...)ADJ
↺ 7 January 2016, 15:55

Synonyms (0)
No known synonyms.
Homonyms (3)? Based on identical spelling. Showing max of 5.
 desert (run away from)verb棄たん
 forsaken (abandoned or deserted)adjective棄たん
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