nav
English
Etymology
From navigation, abbreviation.
Noun
nav (uncountable)
- (transport, military, Internet) Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.
Derived terms
Breton
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Cardinal : nav Ordinal : navet | ||
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *naw, from Proto-Celtic *nawan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse nǫf (“nave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobʰ- (“navel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nav/, [naw], [nawˀ]
Declension
Kurdish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɑːv/
Latvian
Etymology
Reduced form of navaid from nevaid (both still attested in Latvian dialects), originally the negative form of vaid (“to be located, to be”). (G. F. Stenders, in his 1774 grammar, mentions under nevaid the reduced forms neva, nava and even nav' with an apostrophe.) This form replaced an earlier neir, neira (from ir, ira); compare Latvian nėrà. Forms of vaid are occasionally attested in folk tales and songs; A. Bīlenšteins once heard its infinitive form vaist. It was probably an old perfect form, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, to know”) (“to see (around, where one is)” > “to find oneself, to be located, to be”); cf. Lithuanian vaidalas (“apparition, ghost”).[1]
Verb
nav
- (he, she, it) is not; 3rd person singular present indicative form of nebūt
- (they) are not; 3rd person plural present indicative form of nebūt
- (with the particle lai) let (him, her, it) not be; 3rd person singular imperative form of nebūt
- (with the particle lai) let them not be; 3rd person plural imperative form of būt
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “nav”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse nǫf f
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse nǫf f
Romansch
Alternative forms
- nev (Puter)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish navan, cognate with English nave.
Declension
Declension of nav | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | nav | navet | nav | naven |
Genitive | navs | navets | navs | navens |
Related terms
- navborr
- navkapsel
References
- nav in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
- nav in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.