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Meve vs Neve - What's the difference?

meve | neve |

As a verb meve

is .

As a noun neve is

.

meve

English

Verb

(head)
  • * 1385 , ,
    • The sharpe shoures felle of armes preve,
    That Ector or his othere bretheren diden,
    Ne made him only ther-fore ones meve ;
    And yet was he, wher-so men wente or riden,
    Founde oon the beste, and lengest tyme abiden
    Ther peril was, and dide eek such travayle
    In armes, that to thenke it was mervayle.

    neve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, or, obsolete) Nephew.
  • * 1920 , Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger, Laurence Sterne and Goethe :
    • Iwein considers it his right and duty to avenge his neve , and is much exercised when Artûs proposes to go to the well with his full strength, for he apprehends that the king will give the distinction of the combat to his sister's son Gâwein.
  • (rare, or, obsolete) A male cousin.
  • * 1988 , Michael Tepper, New World immigrants :
    • Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve " ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.
  • (rare, or, obsolete) A grandson.
  • (rare) A spendthrift.

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