schoven
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -oːvən
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English sċūfan, sċēofan (the latter is the ancestor of the variant scheven) from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, *skūbaną.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃuvən/, /ˈʃuːvən/, /ˈʃeːvən/
Verb
schoven
- To shove; to move (often forcibly) by direct physical force:
- To shove to the ground; to knock down or over.
- To stab or impale; to move a weapon into something.
- To shove and throw into something.
- To force from something; to remove forcibly or unwillingly:
- To move weather or atmospheric conditions.
- To enter or go somewhere (often when facing resistance)
- (rare) To decline or refuse to accept (or continue accepting).
- (rare) To resist shoving or pushing.
- (rare) To promote or improve one's standings.
- (rare) To crawl or mill about as a crowd.
- (rare) To secure or reinforce.
Usage notes
This verb tends to become weak in later Middle English.
Conjugation
Conjugation of schoven (strong class 2/weak)
infinitive | (to) schoven | |
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indicative | present | past |
1st person singular | schove | schef, schof, schoved |
2nd person singular | schovest | schef, schof, *shovest |
3rd person singular | schoveþ, schoveth | schef, schof, schoved |
plural | schoven | schov(en), schoved(en) |
subjunctive | present | past |
singular | schove | schofe |
plural | schoven | schov(en), schoved(en) |
imperative | present | |
singular | schove | |
plural | schoveþ, schoveth | |
participle | present | past |
schovende, schovinge | schov(en), schoved |
Descendants
- English: shove
- Scots: shuve
References
- “shǒuven (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-22.
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