Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
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.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo 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.
From Middle English weven (“to weave”), from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave, braid”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian weev, weew, weewe (“to weave”), Saterland Frisian weeuwe (“to weave”), Dutch weven (“to weave”), German weben (“to weave”), Luxembourgish wiewen (“to weave”), Yiddish וועבן (vebn, “to weave”), Danish væve (“to weave”), Faroese veva (“to weave”), Icelandic vefa (“to weave”), Norwegian Bokmål veve (“to weave”), Norwegian Nynorsk veva, veve (“to weave”), Swedish väva (“to weave”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwevenenm · to weave
- Inherited-form mentionwefanang
- Inherited-form mention*webangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*webanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*webʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionweevfrr
- Cognate mentionweeuwestq · to weave
- Cognate mentionwevennl · to weave
- Cognate mentionwebende · to weave
- Cognate mentionwiewenlb · to weave
- Cognate mentionוועבןyi · to weave
- Cognate mentionvæveda · to weave
- Cognate mentionvevafo · to weave
- Cognate mentionvefais · to weave
- Cognate mentionvevenb · to weave
- Cognate mentionvevann
- Cognate mentionvävasv · to weave
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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