Neve vs Weve - What's the difference?
neve | weve |
(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.
As a noun neve
is .As a contraction weve is
(informal|nonstandard).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.