väva
Swedish
verb-reg
Definitions
- weave; to form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish væva inherited from Old Norse vefa inherited from Proto-Germanic *webaną (weave) derived from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (weave, wander, move to and from, braid, move to and fro).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*webʰ-
Gloss
weave, wander, move to and from, braid, move to and fro
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
織
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- basketweave English
- even-weave English
- evenweave English
- flatweave English
- folkweave English
- interweave English
- inweave English
- reweave English
- unweave English
- weavable English
- weave English
- weaver English
- weavest English
- weaveth English
- weavy English
- ὑφή Ancient Greek
- ὑφαίνω Ancient Greek
- *ubʰ-néH-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *webʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wobʰseh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wobʰseh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- sammenvevd Norwegian Bokmål
- veve Norwegian Bokmål
- veving Norwegian Bokmål
- vevstol Norwegian Bokmål
- *wabją Proto-Germanic
- *wabōną Proto-Germanic
- *webaną Proto-Germanic
- stol Swedish
- vävnad Swedish
- vävstol Swedish
- veva Norwegian Nynorsk
- wefan Old English
- weven Middle English
- vefa Old Norse
- væve Danish
- vefa Icelandic
- vefari Icelandic
- گبر Persian
- weban Old High German
- veva Faroese
- *weban gmw-pro
- wevan Old Dutch
- wevan Old Saxon
- væva Old Swedish
- wefa Old Frisian
- *webnja Proto-Albanian
- *wäp- Proto-Tocharian