n.
WA whirre
'crash, rush' (Modern English whirr)
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
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