aven

Borrowed from French aven.

aven (plural avens)

1. A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above.
2. A pothole.

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• Northern Caves, Vols 1-5. Dalesman Publishing, UK. passim

• Evan, Nave, Neva, Vena, nave, neva, vane

• avon

From Middle Breton avon, from Proto-Brythonic *aβon (“river”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.ven/

aven f (plural avenioù)

1. (archaic) river

From Occitan avenc, from Gaulish *abonā (“river”), from Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”). Compare Breton aven, avon.

• IPA^(key): /a.vɛn/

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aven m (plural avens)

1. (geology, caving) pit cave, pit (natural cave with predominantly vertical shafts)

   Synonyms: gouffre, igue

2. (geology) sinkhole (US), swallow hole (UK)

• aven on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “aven”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Middle Low German even.

aven

1. just

• Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński; Kazimierz Polański (1962), “aven”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological dictionary of the Polabian Drevani language] (in Polish), volume 1: A — Ďüzd, Wrocław – Warszawa – Kraków: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, page 21
• Kazimierz Polański; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “aven”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 35
• Reinhold Olesch (1962), “Awen”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volume 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 9

aven n (plural avene)

1. Alternative form of avenă

From English oven.

aven

1. oven