forbugan

Equivalent to for- +‎ būgan.

• IPA^(key): /forˈbuː.ɡɑn/, [forˈbuː.ɣɑn]

forbūgan

1. to avoid, abstain
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Ġelēaffulle lǣwede menn, þe on rihtum sinsċipe lybbað, āġifað þrītigḟealdne wǣstm gōdra weorca, ġif hī heora æw̄e æfter bōclīcum ġesetnyssum healdað, þæt is, þæt hī for bearnes ġestrēone, on alyfedum tīman, hǣmed begān, and bearneacniġende wīf and mōnaðsēoc forbūgan; and ðonne hēo leng tȳman ne mæġ,̇ ġeswican hī hǣmedes.

     Faithful lay people, who live in righteous marriage, yield thirtyfold fruit of good works, if their marriage follows the biblical decrees; that is, that they have intercourse for the procreation of children at permitted times, and abstain from intercourse with pregnant or menstruating women, and that at the time they can no longer procreate, they cease intercourse.

2. to get or stay out of the way of something
3. to abstain
4. to miss a meeting or an appointment
5. to shun, eschew

• forbūgendlīċ (“avoidable”)
• forbūgendlīċe (“avoidably”)
• forbūgennes f (“avoidance, evasion”)
• unforbūgendlīċ (“unavoidable, inevitable”)
• unforbūgendlīċe (“unavoidably, inevitably”)

• Middle English: forbowen

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “forbugan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.