Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To place (yarns) crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp in a loom. · To interweave (something) with another thing; to weave (several things) together.
The set of yarns carried by the shuttle of a loom which are placed crosswise at right angles to and interlaced with the warp; the weft. · A woven fabric; also, the texture of a fabric. · The thread or yarn used to form the weft of woven fabric; the fill, the weft. · Synonym of weaving (“the process of making woven material on a loom”).
The noun is derived from Middle English wof, oof, owf (“threads in a piece of woven fabric at right angles to the warp, weft, woof; also sometimes the warp; transverse filaments of a spider web”) [and other forms] (the forms beginning with w were influenced by warp and weft), from Old English ōwef, āwef, from ō-, ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + *wef (“web”) (only attested in the form gewef (“woof”); from wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban (“to weave”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid; to weave”)). The verb is derived from the noun.
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