English Explanatory Dictionary

Scherf

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Scherf Scherfs

Etymology

From the German surname, reflecting multiple origins: * Middle Low German and Middle High German scherf, a kind of coin, used as a nickname for poor people, from Old High German scerf, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną (“to scratch”). * From scharf, scharpf, scherf (“eager, rough”) * Habitational surname from Scherfede in Warburg

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