Etymograph

English

afare

Afare comes from Middle English afaren ‘to go away, depart’, and goes back to Proto-West Germanic *uʀfaran.

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*uʀfaranreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150āfaran‘to depart, march, to go out of or from a place, travel, remove, lead out’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500afaren‘to go away, depart’
  4. Englishtodayafare

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*uʀfaranreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150āfaran‘to depart, march, to go out of or from a place, travel, remove, lead out’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500afaren‘to go away, depart’
  4. Englishtodayafare

Formed from a- + fare

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Middle English fare

English fare

Every English word from Proto-West Germanic *uʀfaran

Today it means

verb To depart.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *uʀfaran / afare

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