WÀRF

varieties

Three times WÀRF and one time WÀRV.

cognates

Old spellings (some):

• hvarf - Old-norse
• hwerf - Old-saxon
• werf, werve - Old-dutch
• hwaerf - Old-english

New spellings (some):

• werf - Dutch
• wharf - English
• Werft - German
• varv - Swedish
• værft - Danish

dictionaries

• current common meaning: shipyard/ dockyard
• more original meanings (also): (artificial) inhabited hill/mound, property around a house/ yard, quay/shore or dam/dyke

https://gtb.ivdnt.org ("werf"): Yard, undeveloped land near a house.

https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/werf1

fragments

[019/15] SA JÉFT MÀN HJAM HUS ÀND WÀRV [...]

[/20] SA MOT MÀN HIM THÉR EN HUS EN WÀRF JÉWA [...]

[/25] ALLERA MANNALIK MOT MÀN EN ÀFTER DÉL AS WÀRF BY SINA HUS JÉVA

he is given a house and yard [...]

they must give him a house and yard there [...]

Everyone must be given an arable back yard behind his house

[090/01] NÉI MÀM HIRA DÁD HETH MÀN ADEL.BROST MIN BROTHER VRSLÉJEN FONDEN VPPA WÀRF

after my mother died, my brother Adelbrost was found dead on the wharf