Waver

Waver

1. A river in northern Cumbria, England, which flows into the Solway Firth.

• Holme East Waver
• Waverton (Cumbria)

The hamlet in the Netherlands is first attested as wauere in 1217. The toponym is derived from the name of a forest, which derives in turn from a term cognate to German wabern (“undulate, waft”) and English waver. Compare Weiver, Waver, Waverley, Waverton and Wavertree.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaː.vər/

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• Hyphenation: Wa‧ver
• Rhymes: -aːvər

Waver n

1. Wavre, a town in Belgium.
2. A hamlet in Ouder-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “waver”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN