Part of speech: Noun
an early warning about a future event
Categories: Warning
Premonition, Forewarning, Forewarn, Previse
The word "forewarning" comes from Middle English forwarning. Many other languages have similar words:
forewarn – A related word in the same word family.
-ing – A related word in the same word family.
forewarn – A related word in the same word family.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales show how creatively Middle English speakers mixed vocabularies.