waive

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• wāv
  Play
• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /weɪv/
  Play
• British, Southern, Standard: /wɛjv/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• Australian, New-Zealand: /wæɪv/
  Play
• Scotland: /wev/
  Play
• Scotland: [weːv]
  Play
• Wales: /weiv/ without the pane–pain merger
  Play
• South-Asia: /wɛjv/
  Play
• South-Asia: /wev/ pane–pain merger
  Play
• rhymes with -eɪv
  Play
• homophone: wave (pane–pain merger)
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: W EY1 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.

From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from Old French waif (“waif”), from gaiver (“to abandon”), ultimately of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; see weyver.

From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijaną.

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Italian: fuorilegge — outlawed woman
• Bulgarian: отказвам се (otkazvam se) — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Dutch: afzien van — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Dutch: laten varen — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Dutch: opgeven — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Dutch: verzaken — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Finnish: luopua — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• French: renoncer à — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• German: verzichten — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• German: aufgeben — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Hungarian: lemond — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Hungarian: nem vesz igénybe — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Hungarian: nem él (vele) — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Hungarian: felad — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Italian: rinunciare — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Māori: tuku — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Polish: zrezygnować — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Russian: отка́зываться (otkázyvatʹsja) — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Spanish: dispensar — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Spanish: renunciar a — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Spanish: no aplicar — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Spanish: no exigir — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Spanish: prescindir de — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Spanish: exonerar de — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Swedish: avsäga sig — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Swedish: avstå från — to relinquish; to give up claim to
• Bulgarian: оставям настрани (ostavjam nastrani) — to put aside, avoid
• Dutch: afzien van — to put aside, avoid
• Dutch: laten varen — to put aside, avoid
• Dutch: opgeven — to put aside, avoid
• Dutch: verzaken — to put aside, avoid
• Finnish: luopua — to put aside, avoid
• German: verlassen — to put aside, avoid
• German: aufgeben — to put aside, avoid
• Hungarian: eltekint — to put aside, avoid
• Hungarian: felfüggeszt — to put aside, avoid
• Italian: evitare — to put aside, avoid
• Russian: отбрасывать (otbrasyvatʹ) — to put aside, avoid
• Russian: отверга́ть (otvergátʹ) — to put aside, avoid
• Spanish: abandonar — to put aside, avoid
• Spanish: dejar de lado — to put aside, avoid
• Spanish: proscribir — to outlaw
• Dutch: verlaten — to abandon, give up
• Dutch: opgeven — to abandon, give up
• Italian: abbandonare — to abandon, give up
• Spanish: abandonar — to abandon, give up
• Dutch: zwenken — to sway
• Italian: ondeggiare — to sway