tave

See also: tavě, tavë, täve, Tâve, Tåve, and ťave

English

Alternative forms

• teave

Etymology

From Middle English taven, from Old Norse *tafa, from Proto-Germanic *tabōną (“to grope, feel”). Cognate with Faroese tava (“to endeavour, exert oneself”), Norwegian Nynorsk tava (“to toil in vain”), German zabeln (“to move convulsively, sprawl, flounder”).

Verb

tave (third-person singular simple present taves, present participle taving, simple past and past participle taved)

1. (intransitive) To sprawl with the arms and legs; kick or fidget with the feet.
2. (intransitive) To toss or tumble oneself about; act violently, rage, throw a fit.
3. (intransitive) To struggle, toil, strive, labour.
4. (intransitive) To trudge, walk heavily.
5. (ambitransitive) To wrestle.
6. (intransitive, dialectal) To hurry along; gad about.
7. (transitive, dialectal) To distress, overtire.

Noun

tave (plural taves)

1. (dialectal) A difficulty, struggle.
2. (dialectal) A hurry, stir, commotion.

Further reading

• According to Gersum Project, OED suggests a connection with teuelyng (“labour, deeds”), from teulen (English toil).

Albanian

Noun

tave

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of tavë

Catalan

Noun

tave m (plural taves)

1. alternative form of tàvec

Cypriot Arabic

Root
t-v-v
1 term

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic تَوّ (taww).

Adjective

tave

1. (of time) exact, specific

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 176

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɐˈʋʲɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: ta‧vè

Pronoun

tavè

1. second-person singular accusative of tu