Neve vs Nave - What's the difference?
neve | nave |
(rare, or, obsolete) Nephew.
* 1920 , Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger, Laurence Sterne and Goethe :
(rare, or, obsolete) A male cousin.
* 1988 , Michael Tepper, New World immigrants :
(rare, or, obsolete) A grandson.
(rare) A spendthrift.
(architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
* , chapter=5
, title= A hub of a wheel.
* --William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act II, Scene 2
(obsolete) The navel.
* William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene 1:
As nouns the difference between neve and nave
is that neve is while nave is (human) hand.neve
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve " ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.
nave
English
Etymology 1
Ultimately from (etyl) , via a Romance source.Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) nafu, from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- 'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods,
- In general synod take away her power;
- Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
- And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven...
- Till he faced the slave;/Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,/Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,/And fix'd his head upon our battlements