Description:

The term 'hawf' has the base meaning of 'a pilot', one who controls, drives or pilots a conveyance such as a vehicle or animal. It is also the verb for the act of driving.

Noun:

As a noun, 'hawf' refers to the driver or pilot of a conveyance. As a slight extension, it may be used for any operator. It is also metaphorically extended to a person who directly and minutely oversees the work of another person, such as a supervisor, an overseer or a slave driver. The term 'hawfca' isn't a synonym as you would expect, but rather a place, implement or means by which the driver drives, scuh as a cockpit. This slightly irregular usage is idiomatic.

Verb:

As a verb, 'hawf' is equivalent to the English ideas of to pilot or to drive a conveyance or animal, or more generally, an operator. It is a transitive skurun verb with an ergative driver and an absolutive thing driven. It has a commonly used benefactive ditransitive happat form where a dative destination is added. If the dative object is introduced with upána, a beneficiary rather than a destination is implied.