different between weave vs weyve
weave
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?v, IPA(key): /wi?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
- Homophone: we've
Etymology 1
From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *weban?, from Proto-Indo-European *web?- (“to weave, braid”).
Verb
weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past wove or weaved, past participle woven or weaved or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wove)
- To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
- To spin a cocoon or a web.
- To unite by close connection or intermixture.
- To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
Related terms
- web
- sew
Translations
Noun
weave (plural weaves)
- A type or way of weaving.
- Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English weven (“to wander”); probably from Old Norse veifa (“move around, wave”), related to Latin vibrare.
Verb
weave (third-person singular simple present weaves, present participle weaving, simple past and past participle weaved)
- (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
- (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
- 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
- Weave a circle round him thrice.
- 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Translations
References
- weave in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- weave in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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weyve
English
Verb
weyve (third-person singular simple present weyves, present participle weyving, simple past and past participle weyved)
- Obsolete form of weave.
- Obsolete form of waive.
Noun
weyve (plural weyves)
- (obsolete) a female outlaw
- 1958, T.H. White, The Once and Future King, p.107
- "She was a true Weyve - except for her long hair, which most of the female outlaws in those days used to clip."
- 1958, T.H. White, The Once and Future King, p.107
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman waif.
Noun
weyve
- Alternative form of weif
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman weyver.
Verb
weyve
- Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)
- c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.
- "To lyven vertuously and weyve synne"
- c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.
Etymology 3
From Old Norse veifa.
Verb
weyve
- Alternative form of weyven (“to wave”)