Weven

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Formed by interlacing threads or strands into a fabric, as an archaic past participle of weave
2. Constructed by passing yarn over and under other yarn, a older form of the past participle of weave
3. Having been woven together from interlaced fibres, an obsolete past participle of the verb weave

Etymology: "Weven" is a Middle English form of "weave," used for the infinitive and plural, and it survived into later English mainly as a spelling of the past participle, which today is "woven." It descends from Old English "wefan," whose past participle was "wefen," so the modern "woven" keeps the same stem with a different vowel. The verb goes back to a Proto-Germanic root, *webanan, that also gave English "web" and "weft," the crosswise threads of a fabric. "Web" originally meant the woven fabric itself and only later came to mean a spider's netting and then the interlocking network sense.