German: topographic name for someone who lived by the defenses
of a town or village, for example a wall, ditch, or fence, Middle High
German wer.North German: from a reduced form of the
personal name Weder, composed of the Germanic elements
widu ‘wood’, ‘forest’ + hari ‘army’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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