weyve
English edit
Verb edit
weyve (third-person singular simple present weyves, present participle weyving, simple past and past participle weyved)
Noun edit
weyve (plural weyves)
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
weyve
- Alternative form of weif
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
weyve
- Alternative form of weyven (“to avoid”)
- c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.
- "To lyven vertuously and weyve synne"
- c.1386 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 1176.
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
weyve
- Alternative form of weyven (“to wave”)