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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian gei̇̃bti (“to decline, become weak”), Latin gibber (“hunch, hump”).
Noun
keive f or m (definite singular keiva or keiven, indefinite plural keiver, definite plural keivene)
- the left hand
References
- ^ 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 gei̇̃bti (“to decline, become weak”), Latin gibber (“hunch, hump”).
Noun
keive f (definite singular keiva, indefinite plural keiver, definite plural keivene)
- the left hand
References
- ^ 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