Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

  1. the left hand

References edit

  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 edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

  1. the left hand

References edit

  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