tejer

/teˈxeɾ/ · B2 · verb

to weave

🧶🕸️ From Latin texere, to weave, which also gave English text and textile

Tejer and textile share the same root: Latin texere, to weave. A text was originally a woven thing, words spun together. So tejer covers knitting a scarf, a spider spinning its web, and spinning a tale.

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