German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for an
innkeeper, Middle High German wirt, German
Wirt.German: status name for a man who was head of a
family and master of his own household, from the same word in the
sense ‘provider’.German: from a short form of Werdo, from
a Germanic personal name formed with werd ‘worth’ as the first
element.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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