qwirre

n.

WA whirre

'crash, rush' (Modern English whirr)

Etymology

Formed on whirres (v.).

PGmc Ancestor

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

cp. hverfa ‘to turn’, hvirfla ‘to whirl’.
(ONP cp. hverfa (1)(v.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

OE Cognate

Phonological and morphological markers

Summary category

BB1c

Attestation

Only attested from WA in ME and afterwards in the Middle Scots Eneados. OED gives a number of MnE attestations, some with variant vocalism (cp. wharred (v.)).

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 560, 1854

Bibliography

MED whirre (n.) , OED whirr, whir (n.) , HTOED ; see further whirres (v.).