navel
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (compare West Frisian nâle, Dutch navel, German Nabel), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (compare Old Irish imbliu, Latin umbilīcus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), Persian ناف (nâf), Sanskrit नाभि (nābhi)), diminutive of *h₃nobʰ-, equivalent to nave + -el (diminutive suffix)). Doublet of omphalos. More at nave.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: nā'vəl, IPA(key): /ˈneɪvəl/
- (Southern US, obsolete) enPR: nā'bəl, IPA(key): /ˈneɪbəl/[1]
Audio (US): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪvəl
- Homophone: naval
Noun
[edit]navel (plural navels)
- (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
- The central part or point of anything; the middle.
- 1637, John Milton, A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:
- Within the navel of this hideous wood,
Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells,
Of Bacchus and Circe born, great Comus
- 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
- Sweeter than the muſk of Tatar, the morning breeze from the navel of every flower raviſhed perfume.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […]
- A navel orange.
- 1981, Peter K. Thor, Edward V. Jesse, Economic Effects of Terminating Federal Marketing Orders for California-Arizona Oranges:
- This contributed to a rapid rise in planted acreage in northern California, especially in navels, which are more suited to growing conditions there.
- (historical) An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
Synonyms
[edit]- bellybutton/belly button, nave (obsolete), umbilicus, see also Thesaurus:navel
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[edit]Verb
[edit]navel (third-person singular simple present navels, present participle naveling or navelling, simple past and past participle naveled or navelled)
- (literary and poetic) To be in the middle of a landscape.
- 1818, Lord Byron, “Canto IV”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza CLXXIII, page 89:
- Lo, Nemi! navelled in the woody hills / So far, that the uprooting wind which tears / The oak from his foundation, and which spills / The ocean o’er its boundary, and bears / Its foam against the skies, reluctant spares / The oval mirror of thy glassy lake; […]
- 1819, J[eremiah] H[olmes] Wiffen, “Aspley Wood”, in Aonian Hours; and Other Poems, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, canto II, stanza LXII, page 102:
- Within the shade a ruined temple stands / To sight conspicuous, navelled in the pines, / Speaking of Grecian art, since Vandal hands / Defaced her structures, and despoiled her shrines.
- 1835 August, Ollapod [pseudonym], “Ollapodiana. Number Four.”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume VI, number 2, New York, N.Y.: [Lewis Gaylord] Clark and [Clement] Edson, […], page 122:
- I rejoice as I call back those pleasant times, when in the casement of our seminary, I rested my telescope on my shut-up Virgil, and looked off among the far-off hills in the lap of which the edifice was naveled, and saw the pretty girls of the farm-houses, […]
- 1965, C[ecil] Day Lewis, “Madrigal for Lowell House”, in The Room & Other Poems, London: Jonathan Cape, page 53:
- The crimson berry tree navelled upon this court / Twinkles a coded message, a wind-sun tingling chord, / Curious round her foot saunters one blue jay: […]
References
[edit]- ^ Stanley, Oma (1937) “III. The Consonants”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, , →ISBN, § 11, page 73.
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch navele, navel, from Old Dutch *navalo, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]navel m (plural navels, diminutive naveltje n)
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabulô; compare nave.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]navel (plural naveles)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “nāvel(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Swedish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]navel c
- (anatomy) navel, belly button
- (figuratively) a navel (hub)
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- navelsträng (“umbilical cord”)
References
[edit]- navel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- navel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- navel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- Svensk MeSH
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