braid

braid
{{11}}braid (n.) in part from stem found in O.E. gebrægd "craft, fraud," gebregd "commotion," O.N. bragð "deed, trick," and in part from or influenced by related BRAID (Cf. braid) (v.). Earliest senses are "a deceit, stratagem, trick" (c.1200), "sudden or quick movement" (c.1300); meaning "anything plaited or entwined" (especially hair) is from 1520s.
{{12}}braid (v.) "to plait, knit, weave, twist together," c.1200, breidan, from O.E. bregdan "to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (in wrestling), draw (a sword); bend, weave, knit, join together; change color, vary; scheme, feign, pretend" (class III strong verb, past tense brægd, past participle brogden), from P.Gmc. *bregthan "make sudden jerky movements from side to side" (Cf. O.N. bregða "to brandish, turn about, braid;" O.S. bregdan "to weave;" Du. breien "to knit;" O.H.G. brettan "to draw, weave, braid"), from PIE root *bherek- "to gleam, flash" (Cf. Skt. bhrasate "flames, blazes, shines"). The verb survives only in the narrow definition of "plait hair." Related: Braided; braiding.

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