• Dojan
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    41 year ago

    Were/wer is old English for man. I think the word is related to the Gaelic word “fear” (pronounced fare), also meaning man.

    Thus a werehouse would be a man that is cursed to transform into a house.

    • krellor
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      11 year ago

      I believe you are correct. Hus is old English for house but I don’t know the equivalent to warehouse. Maybe barn, or bereærn. So a barn that turns into a house would be a bereærnhus, and a house that turned into a barn would be a husbereærn.

      And a house that turned into a man would be huswer, and the opposite a werhus. 😂