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Revision as of 19:54, 15 July 2008
Meaning
- English and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, early Middle English webbe, from Old English webba (a primary derivative of wefan ‘to weave’; compare Weaver 1). This word survived into Middle English long enough to give rise to the surname, but was already obsolescent as an agent noun; hence the secondary forms with the agent suffixes -er and -ster. [1]
- Americanized form of various Ashkenazic Jewish cognates, including Weber and Weberman.[2]
