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[William Palfreman]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Colin Percival wrote:

>    You'd better explain that to the OED editors, then.  They list "faer" as
> meaning "a going, journeying; course, passage, way; voyage" dating back to
> c1000, and "fara" as meaning "to journey, travel, make one's way" back to
> 971.  ("fair", "faron", "faren", and "farand" are also used in the same
> meaning over the next few centuries.)

Don't forget ferry.  Oder F„hre auf deutsch.  Und Fahren.  They all have
the same root.

Bill.