hoveren
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Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”)[1] (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentative suffix).[2][3]
Verb
[edit]hoveren
- hover (remain stationary in the air)
- hover (hang around or linger in a place or around someone)
- hover (to be indecisive or uncertain)
Descendants
[edit]- English: hover
References
[edit]- ^ “họ̄ven, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “họ̄veren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “hover, v.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.