garf

Dutch

Alternative forms
  • garve

Etymology

Probably from Middle Dutch garve, from Old Dutch garva, from Proto-West Germanic *garbōn (“bundle, thing seized together”), from Proto-Germanic *garbō. The first attestation of the word with the meaning "sheaf" is from the year 1170 A.D.[1][2][3][4] Cognate with German Garbe, French gerbe, Catalan garba.

Pronunciation
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Noun

garf f (plural garven)

  1. (agriculture) sheaf, bundled grain
  2. (by extension) rent (as paid by a tenant farmer or peasant)

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • garfboer
  • garfpacht
  • garfplichtig

References
  1. Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “garf”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001
  2. van der Sijs, Nicoline (2010), “garf”, in Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd [Dutch words worldwide] (in Dutch), The Hague: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, OCLC 687330964, page 311
  3. http://etymologiebank.ivdnt.org/trefwoord/garf1
  4. https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/sijs002chro01_01/sijs002chro01_01_0035.php?q=garf#hl1
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