See forsteal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "forstelen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English forstelen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "forstelan",
"4": "",
"5": "to steal away, steal, rob, deprive"
},
"expansion": "Old English forstelan (“to steal away, steal, rob, deprive”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*farstelaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *farstelaną",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "for-",
"3": "steal"
},
"expansion": "for- + steal",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "vorstelen",
"3": "",
"4": "to steal away"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German vorstelen (“to steal away”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "ferstelan",
"3": "",
"4": "to steal away"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German ferstelan (“to steal away”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English forstelen, from Old English forstelan (“to steal away, steal, rob, deprive”), from Proto-Germanic *farstelaną, *frastelaną (“to steal, steal away”), equivalent to for- + steal. Cognate with Middle Low German vorstelen (“to steal away”), Middle High German ferstelan (“to steal away”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "forsteals",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "forstealing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "forstole",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "forstolen",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "",
"3": "forstole",
"4": "forstolen"
},
"expansion": "forsteal (third-person singular simple present forsteals, present participle forstealing, simple past forstole, past participle forstolen)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "7 93",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with for-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 93",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 96",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:",
"text": "Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To steal away, rob, deprive."
],
"id": "en-forsteal-en-verb-QZG6yyuz",
"links": [
[
"steal",
"steal"
],
[
"rob",
"rob"
],
[
"deprive",
"deprive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To steal away, rob, deprive."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "forsteal"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Variant of forestall.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "forsteals",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forsteal (plural forsteals)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "forestall"
}
],
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete form of forestall."
],
"id": "en-forsteal-en-noun-9RGV4BNf",
"links": [
[
"forestall",
"forestall#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "forsteal"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms prefixed with for-",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "forstelen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English forstelen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "forstelan",
"4": "",
"5": "to steal away, steal, rob, deprive"
},
"expansion": "Old English forstelan (“to steal away, steal, rob, deprive”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*farstelaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *farstelaną",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "for-",
"3": "steal"
},
"expansion": "for- + steal",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "vorstelen",
"3": "",
"4": "to steal away"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German vorstelen (“to steal away”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmh",
"2": "ferstelan",
"3": "",
"4": "to steal away"
},
"expansion": "Middle High German ferstelan (“to steal away”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English forstelen, from Old English forstelan (“to steal away, steal, rob, deprive”), from Proto-Germanic *farstelaną, *frastelaną (“to steal, steal away”), equivalent to for- + steal. Cognate with Middle Low German vorstelen (“to steal away”), Middle High German ferstelan (“to steal away”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "forsteals",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "forstealing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "forstole",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "forstolen",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "",
"3": "forstole",
"4": "forstolen"
},
"expansion": "forsteal (third-person singular simple present forsteals, present participle forstealing, simple past forstole, past participle forstolen)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:",
"text": "Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To steal away, rob, deprive."
],
"links": [
[
"steal",
"steal"
],
[
"rob",
"rob"
],
[
"deprive",
"deprive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To steal away, rob, deprive."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "forsteal"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Variant of forestall.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "forsteals",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forsteal (plural forsteals)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "forestall"
}
],
"categories": [
"English obsolete forms"
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete form of forestall."
],
"links": [
[
"forestall",
"forestall#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "forsteal"
}
Download raw JSONL data for forsteal meaning in English (3.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.