nav
Clipping of navigation or navigate.
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nav (uncountable)
nav (third-person singular simple present navs, present participle navving, simple past and past participle navved)
nav
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Cardinal : nav Ordinal : navet | ||
From Proto-Brythonic *naw, from Proto-Celtic *nawan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.
nav
From Old Norse nǫf (“nave”), from Proto-Germanic *nabō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel”).
nav n (singular definite navet, plural indefinite nav)
neuter gender |
singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | nav | navet | nav | navene |
genitive | navs | navets | navs | navenes |
Reduced form of navaid from nevaid (both still attested in Latvian dialects), originally the negative form of vaid (“to be located, to be”). (G. F. Stenders, in his 1774 grammar, mentions under nevaid the reduced forms neva, nava and even nav' with an apostrophe.) This form replaced an earlier neir, neira (from ir, ira); compare Lithuanian nėrà. Forms of vaid are occasionally attested in folk tales and songs; A. Bīlenšteins once heard its infinitive form vaist. It was probably an old perfect form, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, to know”) (“to see (around, where one is)” > “to find oneself, to be located, to be”); cf. Lithuanian vaidalas (“apparition, ghost”).
nav
Akin to Italian nave, from Latin navis.
nav f
From Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.
nav m
From Old Norse nǫf f, from Proto-Germanic *nabō.
nav n (definite singular navet, indefinite plural nav, definite plural nava or navene)
From Old Norse nǫf f, from Proto-Germanic *nabō.
nav n (definite singular navet, indefinite plural nav, definite plural nava)
nav f
Inherited from Prakrit 𑀡𑀸𑀫 (ṇāma), from Sanskrit नामन् (nāman).
nav m (nominative plural nava)
nav f (plural navs)
From Old Swedish navan, cognate with English nave, both from Proto-Germanic *nabō.
nav n
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | nav | navs |
definite | navet | navets | |
plural | indefinite | nav | navs |
definite | naven | navens |
Borrowed from Arabic نَوْع (nawʕ).
nav (plural navlar)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | nav | navlar |
genitive | navning | navlarning |
dative | navga | navlarga |
definite accusative | navni | navlarni |
locative | navda | navlarda |
ablative | navdan | navlardan |
similative | navdek | navlardek |