huve
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Estonian
Noun
huve
Middle English
Noun
huve
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of houve
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
huve f or m (definite singular huva or huven, indefinite plural huver, definite plural huvene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hue
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse húfa. Compare Faroese húgva, Icelandic húfa and Danish hue.
Pronunciation
Noun
huve f (definite singular huva, indefinite plural huver, definite plural huvene)
- a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat
- a chimney cowl
- (zoology) reticulum
- Synonym: nettmage
- (anatomy) foreskin
References
- “huve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
From Frankish *hūbā, from Proto-Germanic *hūbǭ (“hood, cap, covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“to bend, curve, arch over, vault”).
Noun
huve oblique singular, f (oblique plural huves, nominative singular huve, nominative plural huves)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle French: huve
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
huve n
- (colloquial, dialectal, Stockholm) Pronunciation spelling of huvud.
Declension
Declension of huve