wayfare

Etymology

From Middle English weyfaren, originally in participle form weyfarand, from Old English weġfarende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way +‎ faring. Cognate with Danish vejfarende (“wayfaring”), Swedish vägfarande, Icelandic vegfarandi (“wayfaring”). More at way, fare.

Noun

wayfare (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Travel, journeying.
   • 1827, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, 13 May,

     What frightens and disgusts me is those fearful letters from those who have been long dead, to those who linger on their wayfare through this valley of tears.

Verb

wayfare (third-person singular simple present wayfares, present participle wayfaring, simple past wayfore or wayfared, past participle wayfaren or wayfared)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To travel; make a journey.
   • Holland

     A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his.

   • 1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, part 1, act 6, sc. 7,

     The sea is their dry land,

     And, as on cobbles you, they wayfare there.