An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Verweser

by Friedrich Kluge

Verweser, masculine, ‘administrator, manager,’ cannot of course be derived from the preceding word; it belongs to Middle High German verwësen, ‘to manage, provide, look after’; Gothic *faúrawisan, ‘to manage,’ recalls Gothic *faúragaggja, ‘steward’ (literally ‘predecessor’); thus the prefixes ver- of the two Middle High German words verwësen are of different origin.