French wasp

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• wasp — [OE] Etymologically, the wasp may be the ‘weaver’. The word comes ultimately from Indo European *wobhes or *wops , which was probably derived from the base *webh , *wobh ‘weave’ (source of English weave, web, etc); the allusion is presumably to… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• wasp — [OE] Etymologically, the wasp may be the ‘weaver’. The word comes ultimately from Indo European *wobhes or *wops , which was probably derived from the base *webh , *wobh ‘weave’ (source of English weave, web, etc); the allusion is presumably to… …   Word origins

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