name
Meaning 1
A surname from Middle English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
neve
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Pronunciation
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rhymes with -iːv
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/niːv/
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noun
Meaning 2
Nephew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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noun
Meaning 3
A male cousin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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noun
Meaning 4
A grandson.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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noun
Meaning 5
A spendthrift.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
Meaning 6
the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ice
History
Etymology
* As an English, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish surname, from a descendant of Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”). * As a French surname, from the placename En Nève, from En ève (“in water”), corresponding to modern en eau. * As an Italian, Portuguese, and Galician surname, from or related to neve (“snow”).
From Middle English neve, neave, from Old English nefa (“nephew, grandson”), from Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”), from Proto-Indo-European *népōts. Today mostly displaced by its cognate nephew (from Old French neveu). Compare nift (“niece”). Doublet of nephew.