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Lykilorð
orðsifjar, ørhœfi, ørœfi
Keywords
etymology, ørhœfi, ørœfi
Abstract
This paper deals with the etymology of OWN ør(h)œfi n. ‘wilderness, desert; harbour-
less coast’ (NIcel. öræfi also ‘shallow [bank]’), a formation with the prefi x ør- ‘out of,
away from, very, un-’. Prior suggestions made by Bloomfi eld (: hǫfn ‘harbor’) and
Holthausen (: hœfi ‘sth. that is convenient, suitable’) are rejected on phonological,
morphological and semantic grounds. Conversly, it is argued that -hœfi is to be con-
nected with OHG huoba, OS hōva ‘farmed land, farm(stead)’ so that OWN ør-hœf-i <
PGmc. *uz-hōb-ij a- is an exocentric formation which originally denoted ‘sth. that is
away from the farmed land, undeveloped area’, thus ‘wilderness, desert’. Hence, the
meaning ‘harbourless coast’ is secondary.
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