neve

From Middle English neve, neave, from Old English nefa (“nephew, grandson”), from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. The word also exists in Kurdish as nevî (“grandson, grandchild”). Today mostly displaced by its cognate nephew (from Old French neveu). Compare nift (“niece”).

• IPA^(key): /niːv/

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• Rhymes: -iːv

neve (plural neves)

1. (rare or obsolete) Nephew.
   • 1920, Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger, Laurence Sterne and Goethe:

     Iwein considers it his right and duty to avenge his neve, and is much exercised when Artûs proposes to go to the well with his full strength, for he apprehends that the king will give the distinction of the combat to his sister's son Gâwein.

2. (rare or obsolete) A male cousin.
   • 1988, Michael Tepper, New World immigrants:

     Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve" ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.

3. (rare or obsolete) A grandson.
4. (rare) A spendthrift.

• nift
• nevvy, neffy

• Even, eevn, even, even-

neve

1. bone (of mammals, birds)

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

An innovation stemming from Early Proto-Albanian *nōhōn. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *nasъ (“our”).[1]

IPA^(key): /nɛvɛ/

neve

1. (to) us; dative of ne

neve

1. four

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese neve (“snow”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *nĕvem, alteration of Latin nivem.

IPA^(key): [ˈnɛβ̞ɪ]

neve f (plural neves)

1. snow

• As Neves
• bola de neve
• casa da neve
• neveira

• nevada
• nevar
• nevarada
• nevarisca
• Niveiro

neve

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of nevar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of nevar

• “neve” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “neve” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “neue” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “neve” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “neve” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “neve” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese neve. Cognate with Kabuverdianu neva.

neve

1. snow

név +‎ -e (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛvɛ]

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• Hyphenation: ne‧ve

neve

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of név

   Mi a neve? ― What is your name? (formal) / What is his/her/its name?

From Latin nivem, from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *snígʷʰs. Compare Portuguese neve, Spanish nieve.

• IPA^(key): /ˈne.ve/

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• Rhymes: -eve
• Hyphenation: né‧ve

neve f (plural nevi)

1. (weather) snow
2. (slang, uncountable) snow (cocaine)

• coltre
• ghiaccio
• imbiancare
• manto
• sci
• slavina
• snowboard
• valanga

• neve in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• vene

• neu

From nē +‎ -ve.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈneː.u̯e/, [ˈneːu̯ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈne.ve/, [ˈnɛːve]

nēve

1. and not, or not (nor)

• “neve”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “neve”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• neve in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

From French neveu.

neve

1. nephew

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

From Old Dutch *nefo, nevo, from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.

nēve m

1. male relative
   1. male cousin
   2. nephew
   3. grandson

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: neef
  • Afrikaans: neef
  • → Papiamentu: neefie (dated)
  • → Sranan Tongo: neifo
  • → West Frisian: neef
• Limburgish: naef

• “neve”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “neve”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Old English nefa, nefe, from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô.

• neave, neva, nefa, newe, neafe, nefe

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛːv(ə)/

neve (plural neves)

1. A nephew (offspring of one's sibling)
2. One's offspring or descendants.
3. (rare) A neve or profligate; an overspender.

• English: neve (obsolete)

• “nēve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-30.

From Old Norse hnefi; further etymology is unknown.

• nefe, neffe

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛːv(ə)/, /ˈnɛːf(ə)/

neve (plural neves)

1. nief, fist (hand with clenched fingers)

• English: nieve, nief, nief (dialectal)
• Scots: nieve, neive

• “nēve, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-30.

From Old Norse hnefi.

neve m (definite singular neven, indefinite plural never, definite plural nevene)

1. a fist (clenched hand)

• knyttneve
• nevekamp

• “neve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• nåvå (dialectal)

From Old Norse hnefi.

neve m (definite singular neven, indefinite plural nevar, definite plural nevane)

1. a fist (clenched hand)

• nevekamp

• “neve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Portuguese neve, from Vulgar Latin *nĕvem, alteration of Latin nivem, accusative of nix, from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *snígʷʰs (“snow”).

• Hyphenation: ne‧ve

neve f (plural neves)

1. snow
   • 1902, Fernando Pessoa, Quando ela passa:

     Quando eu me sento à janela / P'los vidros qu'a neve embaça / Vejo a doce imagem d'ela / Quando passa… passa… passa…

     When I sit at the window / I see through the panes clouded by snow / The sweet image of her / When (she) passes… passes… passes…

• Kabuverdianu: nevi

• “neve” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From French neveu.

neve

1. nephew

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français