Werf (noun) (S. African)
verf
A farm homestead and farmyard.
From archaic and dialect Dutch, literally ‘raised ground on which a house is built’.
Example sentences
“The residental verfs littered the skyline.”
Favonian (adj) fav-oh-nee-un Of or relating to the west wind./ Mild or favorable; propitious. 1650–60; Latin Favōniānus. See Favonius, -an. foehn (more…)
