Braid
Old English bregdan ‘make a sudden movement’, also ‘interweave’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch breien (verb).
wiktionary
From Middle English braiden, breiden, bræiden, from Old English breġdan(“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną(“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ-(“to shine, shimmer”).
Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid(“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje(“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien(“to knit”), Low German breiden, German breiden, Bavarian bretten(“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða(“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða(“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda(“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).
braid ( comparative more braid, superlative most braid)
etymonline
braid (v.)
"to plait, knit, weave, twist together," c. 1200, breidan, from Old English 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 Proto-Germanic *bregdanan "make sudden jerky movements from side to side" (compare Old Norse bregða "to brandish, turn about, move quickly; braid;" Old Saxon bregdan "to weave, braid;" Old Frisian brida "to twitch (the eye);" Dutch breien "to knit;" Old High German brettan "to draw, weave, braid"), perhaps from a PIE root *bhrek- (compare Sanskrit bhurati "moves quickly," Lithuanian bruzdùs "fast"), but there are phonetic difficulties. In English the verb survives only in the narrow definition of "plait hair." Related: Braided; braiding.
braid (n.)
c. 1200, "a deceit, stratagem, trick;" c. 1300, "sudden or quick movement," in part from stem found in Old English gebrægd "craft, fraud," gebregd "commotion," Old Norse bragð "deed, trick," and in part from or influenced by related braid (v.). Meaning "anything plaited or entwined" (especially hair) is from 1520s.
