hav
Danish
/haw/, /ha/
noun
Definitions
- sea, ocean large body of l
- (figurative) multitude, large amount
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse haf (sea, lifting, ocean, elevation, uplift, heaving) inherited from Proto-Germanic *habą (sea).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*habą
Gloss
sea
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
海
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- haaf English
- aapa Finnish
- haffi Finnish
- Haff German
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- *kh₂pnós Proto-Indo-European
- hav Norwegian Bokmål
- *habnō Proto-Germanic
- *habą Proto-Germanic
- Medelhavet Swedish
- djuphav Swedish
- hav Swedish
- havsbad Swedish
- havssula Swedish
- havstrut Swedish
- havsörn Swedish
- medelhav Swedish
- haf Polish
- hav Norwegian Nynorsk
- haf Old Norse
- hafsins Old Norse
- Middelhavet Danish
- da Danish
- dyb Danish
- dybhav Danish
- frue Danish
- havet Danish
- havfrue Danish
- havørn Danish
- middel Danish
- ørn Danish
- haf Icelandic
- hav Faroese
- haf Old Swedish
- hav Westrobothnian
- haaf Scots
- haw Scanian