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varen.

to sail, to go by boat, to navigate

5 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈvaː.rə(n)/
  1. to sail, to go by boat, to navigate

  2. to ascend or descend

  3. to fare

  4. to travel over land, to go by bike, car, train etc.

    Eastern · archaic · dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch vāren (“to go, travel”), from Old Dutch faran, from Proto-West Germanic *faran, from Proto-Germanic *faraną. The restriction to “travel by water” comes (expectably) from the western dialects; the more general sense survives in the east, but is no longer part of standard Dutch.

noun/ˈvaː.rə(n)/
  1. fern (plant of the class Polypodiopsida)

    feminine · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch varen, from Old Dutch *farn, from Proto-West Germanic *farn.

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