The story
- Old Norse · derived fromVeðrafjǫrðr
- English todayWaterford
From water + ford. In the case of the city in Ireland, this is a modification through folk etymology of Old Norse Veðrafjǫrðr (literally “wether ford”). The civil parish in New Brunswick may have been named after Waterford, Ireland.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.