# weyven
## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman weyver, from waif, from Old Norse veif (“flag”); equivalent to weif +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

#### Alternative forms

* weyve, wayve, weive, wayfe, wayvye, wayven, veyfen, waifen

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwæi̯vən/
* (Northern) IPA: /ˈwaːvən/

#### Verb

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

| infinitive | (to) weyven, weyve | (to) weyven, weyve |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | weyve | weyved |
| 2nd-person singular | weyvest | weyvedest |
| 3rd-person singular | weyveth | weyved |
| subjunctive singular | weyve | weyved |
| imperative singular | weyve | — |
| plural$^1$ | weyven, weyve | weyveden, weyvede |
| imperative plural | weyveth, weyve | — |
| participles | weyvynge, weyvende | weyved, yweyved |
$^1$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

##### Quotations

* 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

* English: waive
* Scots: wave (obsolete)

##### References

* “weiven, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse veifa, from Proto-Germanic *waibijaną.

#### Alternative forms

* weyve, wayve, wayf, wayfe, wayven, veyven

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwæi̯vən/

#### Verb

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

| infinitive | (to) weyven, weyve | (to) weyven, weyve |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | weyve | weyved |
| 2nd-person singular | weyvest | weyvedest |
| 3rd-person singular | weyveth | weyved |
| subjunctive singular | weyve | weyved |
| imperative singular | weyve | — |
| plural$^1$ | weyven, weyve | weyveden, weyvede |
| imperative plural | weyveth, weyve | — |
| participles | weyvynge, weyvende | weyved, yweyved |
$^1$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

##### Descendants

* English: waive

##### References

* “weiven, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.