Dictionary:hverva

Nynorn

Etymology

From Old Norse hverfa, from Proto-Germanic *hwarbijaną, causative of *hwerbaną

Shetland use

Glossary of Shetland and Orkney Words (1866): Edmondston, Thomas

Queerve; after the grass has been mown and spread out to dry, it is again raked into long separate strips in order to prevent its drying to quickly, and the consequent loss of its nutritious qualities, this process is termed to "queerve it," S.

A Glossary of the Shetland Dialect (1914): Angus, James Stout

WHARV, v.p. to turn over mown grass with a rake.

An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland (1928–1932): Jakobsen, Jakob

hwerf [hwæ‘rf], vb., to turn or rake together; now only applied to new-mown grass, hay: to turn the hay; to rake together into swaths (skories) the newly cut grass spread on the field; to h. de hay. Uⁿ. The forms with dropped i-mutation are more extended: hwarv [hwarv, hwärf] (Easts.; N.I.) and kwarv [kwarv, kwärv] (Wests.; Nm^w. occas.; Conn.) or kwarf [kwa‘rf] (Ai. occas.); to hwarv (kwarv) hay, to turn the hay, occas. a) to rake the hay into swaths, occas. b) to spread out the hay, raked together into swaths (thus, e.g. in Sa.). In Nm^w. also prounounced “χwarv” or “k‘warf”. From Fo. is reported “hwarv” beside “kwarv”. A form hwarp [hwa‘rp] (M^m., Ai.?) is more rare. — O.N. hverfa, vb. a., to turn; No. kverva, vb., to turn hay (R.), and kvervla, vb., to spread hay (Aa.) See hwarv, sb., and hwerm², hwirm, hwerv, vb.

Pronunciation

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Alternate Forms

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Verb

hverva

turn, rake together

Inflection

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Synonyms

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