neve
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 4
Definition of neve
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(obsolete, rare)Nephew.
“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.”
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noun
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(obsolete, rare)Nephew.
“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.”
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(obsolete, rare)A male cousin.
“Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve" ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.”
- (obsolete, rare)A grandson.
- (rare)A spendthrift.
name
- A surname from Middle English.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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. Today mostly displaced by its cognate nephew (from Old French neveu). Compare nift (“niece”).
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