aweb

aweb

Old English

Alternative forms

• ōweb
• āb

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle English: [Term?]
  • English: abb

References

1. John R. Clark Hall (1916), “ā”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 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, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 27

Further reading

• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “āweb”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 27
• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “ō-web”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 233
• William Dwight Whitney (1895), “abb”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume 1, New York: The Century Co., page 6