Gave vs Lave - What's the difference?
gave | lave |
(give)
* c. 1471 , An English Chronicle, 1377-1461 :
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 1 :
* 1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma :
* 2011 , Bob Woffinden, (The Guardian) , 31 Jul 2011:
(obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
To draw, as water; drink in.
To give bountifully; lavish.
To run down or gutter, as a candle.
(dialectal) To hang or flap down.
(ambitransitive, archaic) To wash.
* Alexander Pope
* 1789 , William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets , 1789.
* 2006 , Cormac McCarthy, The Road , London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
(archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12.
* 1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses .[https://archive.org/details/songsoftraveloth00stevrich]
As a noun gave
is a (something given to someone, eg for christmas or a birthday ).As a proper noun lave is
.gave
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Verb
(head)- there the erl of Dunbar becam his manne, and the kyng yaf him the Counte of Richemunde.
- I gaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.
- The superior degree of confidence towards Harriet, which this one article marked, gave her severe pain.
- With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursions gave him enormous pleasure.
See also
* givenStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----lave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(lav)- (Dryden)
- In her chaste current oft the goddess laves .
- the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
- The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(-)- Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.
- Give to me the life I love,/Let the lave go by me...