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Neve vs Naeve - What's the difference?

neve | naeve |

As nouns the difference between neve and naeve

is that neve is while naeve is (obsolete) a naevus; a pigmented spot.

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.
  • naeve

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A naevus; a pigmented spot.
  • (Dryden)
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