mave
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maːvə/, [ˈmæːʋə], [ˈmæːʊ]
- Rhymes: -aːvə
Etymology 1
From Old Danish maghæ, from Old Norse magi (“stomach”), from Proto-Germanic *magô, cognate with Swedish mage, English maw, German Magen (“stomach”).
Noun
mave c (singular definite maven, plural indefinite maver)
- stomach, tummy, belly (the organ processing digestion of food)
- abdomen, abdominal cavity (the inner belly)
- belly (the lower part of the human body below the chest)
- potbelly, paunch (the protruding belly of a pregnant or an overweight person)
Declension
common gender |
singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | mave | maven | maver | maverne |
genitive | maves | mavens | mavers | mavernes |
Derived terms
- mavesæk
See also
- mave on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology 2
From the noun mave.
Verb
mave (past tense mavede, past participle mavet)
- (reflexive) to bellycrawl
Conjugation
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Danish mave, which is from Old Norse magi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maː.ve/, [ˈmaː.ʋə]
Noun
mave m (definite singular maven, indefinite plural maver, definite plural mavene)
References
“mave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old English mæw.
Noun
mave oblique singular, f (oblique plural maves, nominative singular mave, nominative plural maves)
Derived terms
References
- mauve on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (mauve)