Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo. · To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due. · To release [a player] onto the waiver wire · To put aside, avoid.
From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from Old French waif (“waif”), from gaiver (“to abandon”), ultimately of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; see weyver.
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