infaran

From Proto-West Germanic *infaran, equivalent to in- +‎ faran. Compare Old High German infaran.

• IPA^(key): /inˈfɑ.rɑn/

infaran

1. to go in, enter

   Synonyms: infēran, ingān

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"

     ...þā læġ þǣr sum creopere lama fram cildhāde sē wæs dæġhwāmlīce ġeboren tō þām beorhtan ġete þæt hē ælmessan underfencge æt þām infarendum...

     Then lay there a cripple, lame from childhood, who was daily carried to the 'Beautiful' Gate, that he might receive alms from those entering.

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Woruldcara, and welan, and flǣsċlīċe lustas forsmoriað ðǣs mōdes ðrotan, and ne geðafiað gōdne willan infaran tō his heortan, swilċe hī ðone līflīċan blǣd forðrǣstne ācwellon. Twā wiðerrǣde ðing geðēodde Drihten on ðisum cwyde, þæt sind ymhīdiġnyssa and lustas.

     Concern about worldly things, and wealth, and carnal lusts choke the throat of the mind, and do not allow good will to enter the heart, as if they killed it by crushing the living fruit. The Lord connected two contrary things in this saying, which are cares and lusts.

• Middle English: infaren

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “infaran”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.