mave
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Danish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Danish maghæ, from Old Norse magi (“stomach”), from Proto-Germanic *magô, cognate with Swedish mage, English maw, German Magen (“stomach”).
Noun
mave c (singular definite maven, plural indefinite maver)
- stomach, tummy, belly (the organ processing digestion of food)
- abdomen, abdominal cavity (the inner belly)
- belly (the lower part of the human body below the chest)
- potbelly, paunch (the protruding belly of a pregnant or an overweight person)
Declension
Declension of mave
Derived terms
See also
mave on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology 2
From the noun mave.
Verb
mave (past tense mavede, past participle mavet)
- (reflexive) to bellycrawl
Conjugation
Inflection of mave
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Danish mave, which is from Old Norse magi.
Pronunciation
Noun
mave m (definite singular maven, indefinite plural maver, definite plural mavene)
References
“mave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old English mæw.
Noun
mave oblique singular, f (oblique plural maves, nominative singular mave, nominative plural maves)
Derived terms
References
- mauve on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (mauve)