keive
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian geĩbti (“to decline, become weak”), Latin gibber (“hunch, hump”).[1]
Noun
keive f or m (definite singular keiva or keiven, indefinite plural keiver, definite plural keivene)
References
- “keive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian geĩbti (“to decline, become weak”), Latin gibber (“hunch, hump”).[1]
Noun
keive f (definite singular keiva, indefinite plural keiver, definite plural keivene)
References
- “keive” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260
Categories:
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns