English
fare
Fare comes from Middle English fare.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fare
- Englishearliest quotation 1918same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fare
- Englishearliest quotation 1918same form
Earliest quotation: 1918, William Babington Maxwell, Indianapolis: “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness.…”
Every English word from Middle English fare
Another origin of fare
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*per-‘a going, passage’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*faraną‘to go, to travel’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*faran‘to travel’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150faran‘to travel, journey’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500faren‘to move, go or travel’
- Englishtodayfare
Today it means
noun A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English fare / fare