mave
Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Danish maghæ, from Old Norse magi (“stomach”), from Proto-Germanic *magô, cognate with Swedish mage, English maw, German Magen (“stomach”).
Noun edit
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 edit
Declension of mave
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- mave on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology 2 edit
From the noun mave.
Verb edit
mave (past tense mavede, past participle mavet)
- (reflexive) to bellycrawl
Conjugation edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Danish mave, which is from Old Norse magi.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mave m (definite singular maven, indefinite plural maver, definite plural mavene)
References edit
“mave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old English mæw.
Noun edit
mave oblique singular, f (oblique plural maves, nominative singular mave, nominative plural maves)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- 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)