ANGLO-SAXON ROOTS. 403 
ther are you going? “ This is for you,” that is, 
this is coming to you. Likewise ‘fore’ and 
‘‘ aft,” the former part, the part gone from you, 
and the part behind you of a vessel. ‘‘ Fore’ as 
an affix is a contraction of ‘‘foran” before, and 
invariably expresses the self-same idea. Yet, it 
has still by implication the literal idea of the root 
in its contracted form of “ fore.” 
In the Westmorland dialect, a few remains of 
this root are occasionally heard, as in the com- 
mon phrase, ‘“‘faran ta cove,” going to calve; 
used when a cow is calving. In the Lowlands of 
Scotland too, a travelling hawker, is sometimes 
by the lower orders called, a “ farandman,” a go- 
ingman. 
Nor is this meaning of the Anglo-Saxon root, 
peculiar to it and its kindred dialects. It has de- 
scended into other branches and tongues. By 
adhering to the rule discovered by Rask, and es- 
tablished by Grimm, the f in the gothic stock, 
is convertible into the Greek +. Hence the An- 
glo-Saxon “far,” ‘“‘for,” “fare,” is exactly similar 
to the Greek “é;,” a passage, a way. And 
rogeboyesy CoOmpounded of “ xéeo;” and ts to go, to 
“faran” our root. In the Latin language “ pro- 
