The story
- Old English · inherited fromāfaran“to depart, march, to go out of or from a place, travel, remove, lead out”
- Middle English · inherited fromafaren
- English todayafare
From Middle English afaren, from Old English āfaran (“to depart, march, to go out of or from a place, travel, remove, lead out”). Equivalent to a- + fare.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.