gnave

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse gnaga. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga, German nagen, Dutch knagen. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”).

Verb

gnave (imperative gnav, present tense gnaver, simple past gnavede, past participle gnavet)

1. to gnaw
2. to scratch, rub, or scrape (against something) so that it wears out
3. (figurative) to nag, gnaw
4. (uncommon) to complain, grumble

Conjugation

Conjugation of gnave

active passive present gnaver gnaves past gnavede gnavedes infinitive gnave gnaves imperative gnav — participle present gnavende past gnavet (auxiliary verb have) gerund gnaven

Derived terms

• afgnave
• en orm gnaver
• gnav
• gnave nogen i kraniet
• gnave sig
• gnave sig gennem
• gnave sig ind
• gnaveben
• gnaven
• gnavenhed
• gnaver
• gnaveri
• gnavpotte
• gnavsår
• musegnav

References

• “gnave” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Adjective

gnāve

1. vocative masculine singular of gnāvus

References

• “gnave”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gnave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.