aweb

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Prefix is either ā-/an-/on- (“on/upon/to, in/into”)[1] or ā-/ar- (“away”).[2] See also āwefan,[3] wefan.

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Noun

āweb n

  1. weft
    Synonym: weft

Declension

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Descendants

  • Middle English: ab, abbe

References

  1. ^ John R. Clark Hall (1916) “ā”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 1
  2. ^ Hans-Friedrich Rosenfeld (1958) Wort- und Sachstudien: Untersuchungen zur Terminologie des Aufzugs, zu Webstuhl und Schermethode der germanischen Bronze- und Eisenzeit und zur Frauentracht der Bronzezeit sowie der Frage ihres Fortlebens in der Volkstracht, volume 9, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, page 5
  3. ^ John R. Clark Hall (1916) “āwefan”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[2], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 27

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