far-

Old Saxon

/fɑr/

prefix
Definitions
  • forming verbs from verbs with various senses especially ‘wrongly, away from, astray, abstention, prohibition, perversion, destruction’
  • used to create intensified adjectives and verbs from other adjectives and verbs, with the sense of completely or fully. Compare Modern English use of up
  • very

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *firi- (across, around).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*firi-

Gloss

across, around

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