n. house; farm, steading, farmstead

Rorik's Steading - Rorikhofkah - A Small Farmstead in the Western Plains. Grain, Leather, Horses.
(Book, Holdings of Jarl Gjalund)

Occurs only in place names and compound words. Denotes a house or hall that is a source of work or pride.

May derive from an unattested word hof meaning ‘hall’, and kah ‘pride’, lit. ‘hall of pride’.

Hof is Old English for ‘house, dwelling, hall, or court’.