lave

Meanings

Verb

Noun

Origin

  • From Middle English laven ("to wash; pour out; stream"), from Old English lafian, ġelafian, from Proto-West Germanic *labōn, influenced, if not wholly borrowed, from Latin lavō, though sometimes contentiously compared to Ancient Greek λωφάω of unknown origin.
  • From Middle English lave ("remainder, rest, that which is left"), from Old English lāf ("lave, remainder, rest"), from Proto-West Germanic *laibu, from Proto-Germanic *laibō ("remainder"), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- ("to stick, glue").
  • Cognate with Old High German leiba ("lave"), Old Norse leif ("lave"), Old English belīfan ("to remain"). More at belive.

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