Weaver
/ˈwiː.vər/noun
A person who makes cloth by interlacing threads on a loom.
Did you know?The English word comes from the same ancient root as Latin *texere* (“to weave”), which also gave us *text*—so writing and weaving have been symbolically linked for centuries as acts of pattern-making.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*teḱs-
“to weave, to fabricate, to make by joining or fitting together”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*webaną
“to weave”
Old English
English
wefan
“to weave, interlace threads”
Middle English
English
weveren / wever
“a person who weaves”
Modern English
English
weaver
“a person who weaves cloth on a loom”