ge-[fandian, -fondian], w. v., to try, to search for, to find out, to experience: w. gen. pret. part. þät häfde gumena sum goldes gefandod, that a man had discovered the gold, [2302]; þonne se ân hafað þurh deâðes nýd dæda gefondad, now the one (Herebeald) has with death's pang experienced the deeds (the unhappy bow-shot of Hæðcyn), [2455].
[fara], w. m., farer, traveller: in comp. mere-fara.
[faran], st. v., to move from one place to another, to go, to wander: inf. tô hâm faran, to go home, [124]; lêton on geflît faran fealwe mearas, let the fallow horses go in emulation, [865]; cwom faran flotherge on Fresna land, had come to Friesland with a fleet, [2916]; com leóda dugoðe on lâst faran, came to go upon the track of the heroes of his people, i.e. to follow them, [2946]; gerund wæron äðelingas eft tô leódum fûse tô farenne, the nobles were ready to go again to their people, [1806]; pret. sg. gegnum fôr [þâ] ofer myrcan môr, there had (Grendel's mother) gone away over the dark fen, [1405]; sægenga fôr, the seafarer (the ship) drove along, [1909]; (wyrm) mid bæle fôr, (the dragon) fled away with fire, [2309]; pret. pl. þät ... scawan scîrhame tô scipe fôron, that the visitors in glittering attire betook themselves to the ship, [1896].
gefaran, to proceed, to act: inf. hû se mânsceaða under færgripum gefaran wolde, how he would act in his sudden attacks, [739].
ût faran, to go out: w. acc. lêt of breóstum ... word ût faran, let words go out of his breast, uttered words, [2552].
[faroð], st. m., stream, flood of the sea: dat. sg. tô brimes faroðe, [28]; äfter faroðe, with the stream, [580]; ät faroðe, [1917].
[faru], st. f., way, passage, expedition: in comp. âd-faru.
[fâcen-stäf] (elementum nequitiae), st. m., wickedness, treachery, deceit. acc. pl. fâcen-stafas, [1019].
[fâh, fâg], adj., many-colored, variegated, of varying color (especially said of the color of gold, of bronze, and of blood, in which the beams of light are refracted): nom. sg. fâh (covered with blood), [420]; blôde fâh, [935]; âtertânum fâh (sc. îren) [This is the MS reading; emmended to âterteárum in text--KTH], [1460]; sadol searwum fâh (saddle artistically ornamented with gold), [1039]; sweord swâte fâh, [1287]; brim blôde fâh, [1595]; wäldreóre fâg, [1632]; (draca) fýrwylmum fâh (because he spewed flame), [2672]; sweord fâh and fäted, [2702]; blôde fâh, [2975]; acc. sg. dreóre fâhne, [447]; goldsele fättum fâhne, [717]; on fâgne flôr treddode, trod the shining floor (of Heorot), [726]; hrôf golde fâhne, the roof shining with gold, [928]; nom. pl. eoforlîc ... fâh and fýr-beard, [305]; acc. pl. þâ hilt since fâge, [1616]; dat. pl. fâgum sweordum, [586].—Comp. bân-, blôd-, brûn-, dreór-, gold-, gryre-, searo-, sinc-, stân-, swât-, wäl-, wyrm-fâh.