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Willerung

21:16 Feb 14, 2005
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German to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Genealogy / 19th-century German
German term or phrase: Willerung
From a 19th-century document:
"Er erhält 174 Morgen Ackerland nebst 16 Morgen **Willerungen**, sowie die Wiesen am ..., zusammen 40 Morgen."
I get six Google hits for Willerung, all in similar contexts (e.g. Das ursprünglich Nassau - Saarbrücksche Hofgut in Kirrberg umfaßt über 200 Morgen Land an Äckern, Wiesen Wäldern und **Willerung**) but I'd like to know the exact meaning.
I've already checked Duden, Grimms, Muret-Sanders, Zedler, Haberkern/Wallach, Duden.
Ann C Sherwin
Local time: 15:15


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3possibly derived from 'weiler' ; homestead
Johanna Timm, PhD


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possibly derived from 'weiler' ; homestead


Explanation:
it may be derived from 'weiler' = homestead; also: hamlet
Possibly, the '16 Morgen' included some homesteads?

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:20JljAL2RcUJ:www.neusta...

Aus den -weiler-Namen der Pfalz ergibt sich folgende lautliche Entwicklung des Grundworts:
9./10. Jhd. -wilare
ab 11 .Jhd. (erstmals 1007) -wilere
ab M. 12. Jhd. (erstmals 1140) -wilre, wofür im 14.Jhd. nicht selten < wijlre > geschrieben wird
ab Ende des 13. Jhd. -willer
in der 2. Hälfte des 14.Jhd. vilt, später vereinzelt auch -villr,
Mitte 15. Jhd. -wiler
mit Diphthongierung erstmals 1489 -weyler


Johanna Timm, PhD
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Local time: 12:15
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Johanna, thanks for your effort. Yours was the only reply, and I appreciate your taking time to try to help. However, I could not select it because I learned from other sources that it was a variant spelling of "Wilderung," which fits my context perfectly. I had reason to believe that there was no development on this land at the time of its acquisition.
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Comment: Johanna, thanks for your effort. Yours was the only reply, and I appreciate your taking time to try to help. However, I could not select it because I learned from other sources that it was a variant spelling of "Wilderung," which fits my context perfectly. I had reason to believe that there was no development on this land at the time of its acquisition.



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