afford

Meaning

Verb

• to be able or rich enough.
• To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury.
• To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
• To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.

Origin

• From Middle English afforthen, aforthen, avorthien, from earlier iforthen, iforthien, ȝeforthien, from Old English forþian, ġeforþian, from Proto-Germanic *furþōną, from Proto-Germanic *furþą, equivalent to . Cognate with Old Norse forða, Icelandic forða.