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keive

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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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

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keive f or m (definite singular keiva or keiven, indefinite plural keiver, definite plural keivene)

  1. the left hand

References

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  1. ^ 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

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Etymology

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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

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keive f (definite singular keiva, indefinite plural keiver, definite plural keivene)

  1. the left hand

References

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  1. ^ 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
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