Etymology

weever

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Today it means: Any of the usually brown fish in family Trachinidae, which catch prey by burying themselves in the sand and snatching them as they go past. Full definition →

Middle English *wever ← Old Northern French wivre ← Latin vīpera
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  1. Latin · derived fromvīpera
  2. Old Northern French · derived fromwivre“serpent”
  3. Middle English · inherited from*wever
  4. English todayweever

From Middle English *wever, from Old Northern French wivre (“serpent”), from Latin vīpera. Doublet of wyvern and viper.

Words from the same roots

Old Northern Frenchwivre all →

wyvern

Latinvīpera all →

viperwyvern

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.