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

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.