From Middle English forthward, forthwardes, from Old English forþweard ("forward, tending forward, continual"), from Proto-Germanic *furþą ("forth-"), *warþaz, equivalent to forth- + -ward. Cognate with Old Saxon forþwerd, forþwerdes, forþwardes.
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