fare – Middle English noun declension

Noun: fare

Sg.

fare

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Þu myhteſ faren al a dæiſ fare ſculdeſt thu neure finden man in tun ſittende · ne land tiled. (You could go a whole day's journey, but you'd never find anyone in town or any tilled fields.) [p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:]

Nouns inflected like fare

syment, cristened, savete, savyne, sandal, whelere, scuage, scluse, sclise, sclave, schyft, schuit, schite, schort, schold, schern, smothe, smethe, smerte, slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Originally two distinct nouns:
2. * Old English faru, from Proto-West Germanic *faru, from Proto-Germanic *farō.
3. * Old English fær, from Proto-West Germanic *far, from Proto-Germanic *farą. See: Old English Nouns 'faru', Old English Nouns 'fær'.

Verbs referencing "fare"

English Nouns fare.