Etymology: Originally two words, both < root of fare v.¹: Old English fær strong neuter = Old High German and Old Norse far < Germanic *faro(m, and Old English faru strong feminine = Old Frisian fare, Middle High German var. Old Norse fǫr < Germanic *farâ.

Etymology: < fare v.²; see farrow n.

Etymology: < Italian faro in same senses, < Latin pharus , Greek ϕάρος pharos n.¹

Etymology: Belongs to fare v.³

Etymology: A Common Germanic strong verb: Old English faran , past tense fór , past participle faren , corresponds to Old Frisian fara , fôr , faren , Old Saxon faran , fôr , (gi)faran (Dutch varen , voor , gevarn ), Old High German faran , fuor , (gi)faran (Middle High German var(e)n , vuor , gevar(e)n ), Old Norse fara , fór , farenn (Danish fare , foer , faret , Swedish fara , for , farit ), Gothic faran , fôr , farans < Old Germanic *faran , fôr , farano- , < pre-Germanic *por- , pōr- , < Aryan root *per, por, pər to pass through, whence many derivatives in all the Aryan languages: compare Sanskrit par , pṛ to carry through or across, Greek πόρος way, passage, ford, Latin portāre to carry; also the words mentioned under far adv., for prep., conj., n., and adv.The change from the strong to the weak conjugation seems to have been due in part to the influence of the derivative fere v.³, which in English had the same sense, though in the other Germanic languages its equivalent expressed the transitive sense ‘to carry’. In the present stem this verb became obsolete before 14th cent.; but its past tense and past participle ferd(e (in northern dialects also fard(e) continued in use, virtually serving as inflections of fare. The irregular weak verb thus produced (fare, ferd) became regular (fare, fared) before the 16th cent. The strong past tense, already comparatively infrequent in Middle English, seldom appears after 15th cent. except in Scots; of the strong past participle we have no examples after 16th cent.