wayfare means travel, journeying. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
wayfare is pronounced /ˈweɪfɛə(ɹ)/.
Why “wayfare” is a great word
WAYFARE — [Noun, Verb] The act or course of journeying; to make a journey. From Middle English weyfaren, from Old English weġfarende ("wayfaring"), a compound of way ("path, road") and fare ("to journey, go"); the noun is first attested around 1450, the verb in 1534. Unlike "commute," which implies a regular, functional orbit, or "voyage," which evokes a grand, plotted passage, wayfare is the older, more general word for the motion itself. It is the wear on a leather boot-sole, the dust rising behind a lonely cart, and the shifting silhouette of a traveler against the last light—the fundamental, unadorned poetry of being between places.
Etymology
From Middle English weyfaren, originally in participle form weyfarand, from Old English weġfarende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way + faring. Cognate with Danish vejfarende (“wayfaring”), Swedish vägfarande, German wegfahren (“to drive away”), Icelandic vegfarandi (“wayfaring”). More at way, fare.
noun
- Travel, journeying.“What frightens and disgusts me is those fearful letters from those who have been long dead, to those who linger on their wayfare through this valley of tears.”
verb
- To make a journey; to travel.“A certain Laconian as he way-fared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend an hoſt of his, who the firſt day, of purpoſe avoided him, and was out of the way, becauſe he was not minded to lodge him; […]”