waive

Meanings

Verb

• To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
• To put aside, avoid.
• To outlaw (someone).
• To abandon, give up (someone or something).
• To move from side to side; to sway.
• To stray, wander.

Noun

• A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
• A waif; a castaway.

Origin

• From Middle English weyven, from Anglo-Norman weyver, from waif.
• From Middle English weyven, from Old Norse veifa ("to wave, swing") (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijaną.
• From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.