Etymology

fare

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Today it means: A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage. Full definition →

Middle English fare ← Old English fær ← Proto-Germanic *farą
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fare · noun1

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*per-“a going, passage”
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*farą
  3. Old English · derived fromfær“journey, road”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromfare
  5. English todayfare

From Middle English fare, from a merger of Old English fær (“journey, road”) and faru (“journey, companions, baggage”), from Proto-Germanic *farą and *farō (“journey, fare”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”).

fare · verb2

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*per-“a going, passage”
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*faraną
  3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*faran
  4. Old English · inherited fromfaran“to travel, journey”
  5. Middle English · inherited fromfaren
  6. English todayfare

From Middle English faren, from Old English faran (“to travel, journey”), from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“a going, passage”). Cognate with West Frisian farre, Dutch varen (“to sail”), German fahren (“to travel”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål fare, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic fara (“to go”) and Swedish fara (“to travel”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishfær all →

Farraway

Proto-Indo-European*per- all →

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Old Englishfaran all →

farrand

Proto-Germanic*faraną all →

farrandfirk

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