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Hello,

> >    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.

  You're absolutely correct.  All of those words are derived from the older
  Germanic root word "fer"/"faer".

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