Meaning

noun someone who communicates by waving

noun the act of pausing uncertainly

noun the act of moving back and forth

originThe verb is derived from Middle English waveren (“to move back and forth, swing; to move unsteadily, totter; to shake, tremble; to wander; (figurative) to be changeable or unstable; to deviate”), and then possibly: * from Old English (compare Old English wǣfre (“flickering, quivering, wavering; active, nimble (?)”)), related to Old English wafian (“to wave”) from Proto-West Germanic *wabbjan (“to…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0