Weaverthorpe
Major Settlement in the Parish of Weaverthorpe
Historical Forms
- Wifretorp 1086 DB
- Wyferthorp 1235 FF
- Wiueretorp(e) 1109–14 RegAlb 1119–47 Nostell
- Wiuertorp, Wyuertorp, Wyvertorp 1114–21 Nostell 1191 P 1200 Cur 1205 FF 1219 Ass 1230 Ebor
- Wyuerthorp(e) 1136–9 RegAlb late12th YD 1541 FF
- Wywerthorp 1239 Ebor
- Wivelthorp 1180–5 Bridl
- Wiverunestorp, Wyverunestorp 1228 Pat
- Wiverestorp 1249 Ebor
- Wyret(h)orp 1269 Nostell 15th Sawley
- Wyrthorp(e) 1304 BevAct 1306 YI 1389 Ch
- Wyrtrop 1344 FF
- Werthorp(e) 1355 Ipm 1407 YI
- Werthorp(e) als. Warthorpe 1553 FF
- Werethorp 1543 FF
- Weuerthorp(e), Weverthorp(e) 1419 YI 1508 Test 1524,1582 FF
Etymology
The 1228 Pat form Wiverunestorp , if it belongs here, may be corrupt, for pers. names in -run are feminine and would not have a genitive inflexion in -es ; there is, moreover, no recorded pers. name Wifrun . The form may of course have been influenced by other names containing the theme -run . The first element is most likely an OScand pers. name Víðfari 'the far-traveller' (LindN), a name of the same type as that found in Nafferton supra 94.Víðfari occurs in OE as Widfare and in DB and ME as Wifare , etc. (NP 175). 'Víðfari 's village,' v. þorp . The later spellings Wyrthorp and Weverthorp arise in the first case by common reduction and shortening, in the second from lengthening of a ME short i in an open syllable to ē (v. Introd. xxix).