mave

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːvə/, [ˈmæːʋə], [ˈmæːʊ]
• Rhymes: -aːvə

Etymology 1

From Old Danish maghæ, from Old Norse magi (“stomach”), from Proto-Germanic *magô, cognate with Swedish mage, English maw, German Magen (“stomach”).

Noun

mave c (singular definite maven, plural indefinite maver)

1. stomach, tummy, belly (the organ processing digestion of food)
2. abdomen, abdominal cavity (the inner belly)
3. belly (the lower part of the human body below the chest)
4. potbelly, paunch (the protruding belly of a pregnant or an overweight person)

Inflection

Declension of mave

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mave	maven	maver	maverne
genitive	maves	mavens	mavers	mavernes

Derived terms

• mavesæk

See also

• mave on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

From the noun mave.

Verb

mave (past tense mavede, past participle mavet)

1. (reflexive) to bellycrawl

Inflection

Inflection of mave

	present	past
simple	maver	mavede
perfect	har mavet	havde mavet
passive	—	—
participle	mavende	mavet
imperative	mav	—
infinitive	mave	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	maven	—

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mage

Etymology

From Danish mave, which is from Old Norse magi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maː.ve/, [ˈmaː.ʋə]

Noun

mave m (definite singular maven, indefinite plural maver, definite plural mavene)

1. abdomen, belly, stomach

References

“mave” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• maoue
• maue
• mauve
• miawe

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English mæw.

Noun

mave oblique singular, f (oblique plural maves, nominative singular mave, nominative plural maves)

1. gull; seagull

Derived terms

• moette

References

• mauve on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (mauve)