weyve

English

Verb

weyve (third-person singular simple present weyves, present participle weyving, simple past and past participle weyved)

1. Obsolete form of weave.
2. Obsolete form of waive.

Noun

weyve (plural weyves)

1. Obsolete form of waive (“female outlaw”).
   • 1958, T.H. White, The Once and Future King, page 107:

     "She was a true Weyve - except for her long hair, which most of the female outlaws in those days used to clip."

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

weyve

1. Alternative form of weif

Etymology 2

Verb

weyve

1. Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)
   • c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.

     "To lyven vertuously and weyve synne"

Etymology 3

Verb

weyve

1. Alternative form of weyven (“to wave”)