neve

From Middle English neve, neave, from Old English nefa (“nephew, grandson”), from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Today mostly displaced by its cognate nephew (from Old French neveu). Compare nift (“niece”).

• IPA^(key): /niːv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːv

neve (plural neves)

1. (rare or obsolete) Nephew.
   • 1920, Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger, Laurence Sterne and Goethe:

     Iwein considers it his right and duty to avenge his neve, and is much exercised when Artûs proposes to go to the well with his full strength, for he apprehends that the king will give the distinction of the combat to his sister's son Gâwein.

2. (rare or obsolete) A male cousin.
   • 1988, Michael Tepper, New World immigrants:

     Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve" ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.

3. (rare or obsolete) A grandson.
4. (rare) A spendthrift.

• nift
• nevvy, neffy

• Even, eevn, even, even-

neve

1. bone (of mammals, birds)

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

An innovation stemming from Early Proto-Albanian *nōhōn. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *nasъ (“our”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /nɛvɛ/

neve

1. (to) us; dative of ne

neve

1. four

From Old Galician-Portuguese neve (“snow”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *nĕvem, alteration of Latin nivem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛbe/ [ˈnɛ.β̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɛbe
• Hyphenation: ne‧ve

neve f (plural neves)

1. snow

• As Neves
• bola de neve
• casa da neve
• neveira

• nevada
• nevar
• nevarada
• nevarisca
• Niveiro

neve

1. inflection of nevar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “neve”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “neve”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “neue”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “neve”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “neve”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “neve”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Portuguese neve. Cognate with Kabuverdianu neva.

neve

1. snow

név +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛvɛ]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ne‧ve

neve

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of név

   Mi a neve? ― What is your name? (formal) / What is his/her/its name?

From Latin nivem, from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *snígʷʰs. Compare Portuguese neve, Spanish nieve.

• IPA^(key): /ˈne.ve/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eve
• Hyphenation: né‧ve

neve f (plural nevi)

1. (weather) snow
2. (slang, uncountable) snow (cocaine)

• coltre
• ghiaccio
• imbiancare
• manto
• sci
• slavina
• snowboard
• valanga

• neve in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• vene

• neu

From nē +‎ -ve.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈneː.wɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛː.ve]

nēve

1. and not, or not (nor)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.26:

     Caesar ad Lingonas litteras nuntiosque misit, ne eos frumento neve alia re iuvarent

     Caesar sent letters and emissaries to Lingonas so that they could not help them with food nor with another thing.

• “neve”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “neve”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• neve in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From French neveu.

neve

1. nephew

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

From Old Dutch *nefo, nevo, from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.

nēve m

1. male relative
   1. male cousin
   2. nephew
   3. grandson

• Dutch: neef
  • Afrikaans: neef
  • → Papiamentu: neefie (dated)
  • → Sranan Tongo: nefo, neifo
    • → Dutch: niffo
  • → West Frisian: neef
• Limburgish: naef

• “neve”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “neve”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Old English nefa, from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô.

• neave, neva, nefa, newe, neafe, nefe

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛːv(ə)/

neve (plural neves)

1. A nephew (offspring of one's sibling)
2. One's offspring or descendants.
3. (rare) A neve or profligate; an overspender.

• English: neve

• “nēve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 May 2018.

From Old Norse hnefi; further etymology is unknown.

• nefe, neffe

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛːv(ə)/, /ˈnɛːf(ə)/

neve (plural neves)

1. nief, fist (hand with clenched fingers)

• English: nieve, nief, nief (dialectal)
• Scots: nieve, neive

• “nēve, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 May 2018.

From Old Norse hnefi.

neve m (definite singular neven, indefinite plural never, definite plural nevene)

1. a fist (clenched hand)

• knyttneve
• nevekamp

• “neve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• nåvå (dialectal)

From Old Norse hnefi.

neve m (definite singular neven, indefinite plural nevar, definite plural nevane)

1. a fist (clenched hand)

• nevekamp

• “neve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *nĕvem, alteration of Latin nivem.

neve f (plural neves)

1. snow
   • 13th century, Alfonso X of Castile, Ao dayā de calez euachei; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 493:

     Econ todesto aynda faz al
     cono liuᵒs q̄ tem per bōa fe
     Sē acha molhr̄ q̄ aia mal
     deste fago q̄ de ssam Marcal e
     assy uai per foder ē cantar
     q̄ fodendo lhi ffaz bem
     Semelhar q̄ e geada ou ne ue nō al

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Fala: nevi
• Galician: neve
• Portuguese: neve
  • Kabuverdianu: nevi

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “neve”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “neve”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nev”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese neve, from Vulgar Latin *nĕvem, alteration of Latin nivem.

• Hyphenation: ne‧ve

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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neve f (plural neves)

1. snow
   • 1902, Fernando Pessoa, Quando ela passa:

     Quando eu me sento à janela / P'los vidros qu'a neve embaça / Vejo a doce imagem d'ela / Quando passa… passa… passa…

     When I sit at the window / I see through the panes clouded by snow / The sweet image of her / When (she) passes… passes… passes…

• Kabuverdianu: nevi

• “neve” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

neve

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of nevar

From French neveu.

neve

1. nephew

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français