different between weyve vs weive

English

Verb

weyve (third-person singular simple present weyves, present participle weyving, simple past and past participle weyved)

1. Obsolete form of weave.
2. Obsolete form of waive.

Noun

weyve (plural weyves)

1. (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."

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman waif.

Noun

weyve

1. Alternative form of weif

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman weyver.

Verb

weyve

1. Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)
   • c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.

     "To lyven vertuously and weyve synne"

Etymology 3

From Old Norse veifa.

Verb

weyve

1. Alternative form of weyven (“to wave”)

English

Verb

weive (third-person singular simple present weives, present participle weiving, simple past and past participle weived)

1. Obsolete form of waive.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)

Middle English

Verb

weive

1. Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)