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webh- — To weave, also to move quickly. Derivatives include web, weevil, and wobble. 1. weave, woof1, from Old English wefan, to weave, from Germanic *weban. 2. weft, from Old English … Universalium
wasp — [OE] Etymologically, the wasp may be the ‘weaver’. The word comes ultimately from Indo European *wobhes or *wops , which was probably derived from the base *webh , *wobh ‘weave’ (source of English weave, web, etc); the allusion is presumably to… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
weave — English has two distinct verbs weave, but they have grown to resemble each other closely over the centuries. Weave ‘make cloth’ [OE] goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *weben, which also produced German weben, Dutch weven, Swedish väva, and… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
weave — (v.) O.E. wefan form by interlacing yarn (class V strong verb; past tense wæf, pp. wefen), from P.Gmc. *webanan (Cf. O.N. vefa, M.L.G., M.Du., Du. weven, O.H.G. weban, Ger. weben to weave ), from PIE *webh /*wobh (Cf. Skt. ubhnati he laces to … Etymology dictionary
wasp — [OE] Etymologically, the wasp may be the ‘weaver’. The word comes ultimately from Indo European *wobhes or *wops , which was probably derived from the base *webh , *wobh ‘weave’ (source of English weave, web, etc); the allusion is presumably to… … Word origins
weave — English has two distinct verbs weave, but they have grown to resemble each other closely over the centuries. Weave ‘make cloth’ [OE] goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *weben, which also produced German weben, Dutch weven, Swedish väva, and… … Word origins
