Etymology

weely

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Today it means: A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs. Full definition →

Middle English wili ← Old English wylie
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromwylie
  2. Middle English · inherited fromwili
  3. English todayweely

From weel + -y. Alternatively, a continuation of Middle English wili, whily, from Old English wylie, a variant of wyliġe, wiliġe (“basket”).

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