weave

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make cloth or other material by crossing threads over and under each other.

   This loom weaves yarn into warm sweaters.

2. 2
   verb

   To move along by turning and twisting to avoid things in the way.

   The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.

3. 3
   verb

   To combine different ideas or elements skilfully into a whole.

   She wove several true stories into a single novel.

4. 4
   noun

   The pattern or way in which a fabric is woven.

   That rug has a very tight weave.

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Simplified etymology

Weave has two distinct origins. The verb meaning “twist or move from side to side” probably comes from Old Norse veifa, “wave, brandish.” The textile verb comes from Old English and an ancient root also represented in Sanskrit ūrnavābhi, “spider,” literally “wool-weaver”; web is related and is recorded by about AD 725.

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…

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