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- Proto-Germanic · derived from*fōrijaną
- Danish · borrowed fromføre
- English todayfure
From Danish føre, from Proto-Germanic *fōrijaną. Cognate with Dutch voeren (“to lead”), Low German fören (“to lead”), German führen (“to lead”), Luxembourgish féieren (“to lead”), Icelandic færa (“to move, carry, convey”), Faroese føra (“to lead, carry”), Swedish föra (“to lead, guide, steer, direct”), Danish føre (“to lead”), Norwegian Bokmål føre (“to lead”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.