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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-320/
- Published: 2020-12-09T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-12-08T21:23:51.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

The word for today is…

forebear (noun) – Ancestor; forefather; progenitor.

Not to be confused with:  
forbear – refrain or abstain from; to forgo.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/forebear?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Forebear (also spelled, less commonly, as forbear) was first used by our ancestors in the days of Middle English. Fore- means “coming before,” just as in forefather, and -bear means “one that is.” This -bear is not to be confused with the -bear in the unrelated verb forbear, which comes from Old English beran, meaning “to bear or carry.” The -bear in the noun forebear is a combination of be-, from the verb be (or, more specifically, from been, an old dialect variant of be), and -ar, a form of the suffix -er, which we append to verbs to denote one that performs a specified action. In this case the “action” is simply existing or being—in other words, -bear implies one who is a “be-er.”

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