weyven
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Anglo-Norman weyver, from waif, from Old Norse veif (“flag”); equivalent to weif + -en (infinitival suffix).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]weyven
- To decide not to engage in or with something; to ignore one's right to do something:
- To refuse to perform a task or job or take on a duty.
- To waive, renounce or reject something; to give up or go without. (e.g. a cause, a luxury, or a plot of land)
- To abscond; to sign out or relieve oneself.
- To avoid or to resist engaging in something:
- To withstand attack or tempting; to remain unbroken or resistant.
- To escape from something; to elude or remain unfindable.
- To block; to prevent:
- To dismiss; to send away or drive away.
- To eliminate, to get rid of or purge.
- To deem illegal; to declare someone to be a criminal.
- To distract; to stop from entering.
- To facilitate the passage of something to someone.
- To surrender; to admit or acknowledge defeat.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of weyven (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Quotations
[edit]- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Manciple’s Tale:
- Lat take a cat, and fostre hym wel with milk, / And tendre flessh, and make his couche of silk, / And lat hym seen a mous go by the wal, / Anon he weyveth milk and flessh and al […].
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “weiven, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse veifa, from Proto-Germanic *waibijaną.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]weyven
- To shake, waver or totter; to move to and fro:
- To dangle; to sway to and fro while suspended.
- To move about; to travel aimlessly or erratically.
- (figurative, rare) To be easily convinced to change course; to be uncertain.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- To cause to shake, waver or totter; to push around:
- (rare) To open, to lift up.
- (figurative, rare) To make oneself distracted.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of weyven (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
[edit]- English: waive
References
[edit]- “weiven, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.
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- Middle English terms suffixed with -en (infinitival)
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