weave
/wiːv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
Transitive verb
noun
Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
Example Sentences
- "This loom weaves yarn into cloth."
- "Eugene "Uncle Onio" Punzal has lived on Kauai his whole life. He began weaving coconut fronds when he was a young child after seeing traditional weavers selling their pāpales (a traditional style of crownless hat) and baskets to tourists on the beach."
- "Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs."
- "This weaves itself, perforce, into my business."
- "these words, thus woven into song"
- "to weave the plot of a story"
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: weven, wefan, *weban, *webaną, *webʰ-, veifa