keive

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian geĩbti (“to decline, become weak”), Latin gibber (“hunch, hump”).[1]

Noun

keive f or m (definite singular keiva or keiven, indefinite plural keiver, definite plural keivene)

  1. the left hand

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian geĩbti (“to decline, become weak”), Latin gibber (“hunch, hump”).[1]

Noun

keive f (definite singular keiva, indefinite plural keiver, definite plural keivene)

  1. the left hand

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260
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