carve
English
/kɑɹv/, /kɑːv/
verb
Definitions
- (archaic) To cut.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English kerven inherited from Old English ceorfan inherited from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną (carve) derived from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (scratch, carve), *gerbʰ- (scratch, carve).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gerbʰ-
Gloss
scratch, carve
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -gram English
- -graph English
- -grapher English
- aerophotograph English
- allograft English
- anti-graft English
- antigraft English
- audiographic English
- autograft English
- becarve English
- carvable English
- carveable English
- carven English
- carveout English
- carver English
- carvery English
- cleftgraft English
- cographic English
- electrographic English
- endograft English
- engraft English
- epileptographic English
- forcarve English
- graft English
- graftable English
- graftage English
- graftectomy English
- grafter English
- graftless English
- graftling English
- grammatical English
- graph English
- graphic English
- graphic design English
- graphical English
- graphically English
- graphician English
- graphicly English
- graphicness English
- graphism English
- graphology English
- heterograft English
- homograft English
- hypergraft English
- infographic English
- intergraft English
- intragraft English
- isograft English
- lipograft English
- lithography English
- melographic English
- micrograft English
- misgraft English
- nongraphic English
- orthograft English
- out English
- overcarve English
- perigraft English
- perigraphic English
- photograph English
- postgraft English
- recarve English
- regraft English
- runecarver English
- supergraphic English
- syngraft English
- transgraft English
- uncarvable English
- visuographic English
- woodcarver English
- xenograft English
- zoograft English
- -graphia Latin
- grammaticālis Latin
- graphicus Latin
- graphium Latin
- Lithografie German
- -gráfia Hungarian
- -grafia Italian
- afkerven Dutch, Flemish
- doorkerven Dutch, Flemish
- grafiek Dutch, Flemish
- inkerving Dutch, Flemish
- kerfdier Dutch, Flemish
- kerfstok Dutch, Flemish
- kerven Dutch, Flemish
- verkerven Dutch, Flemish
- жребий Russian
- γράμμα Ancient Greek
- γράφειν Ancient Greek
- γράφω Ancient Greek
- γραμμή Ancient Greek
- γραμματική Ancient Greek
- γραμματικός Ancient Greek
- γραφή Ancient Greek
- γραφεύς Ancient Greek
- γραφικός Ancient Greek
- γρᾰμμᾰτῐκός Ancient Greek
- διάγραμμα Ancient Greek
- λογογράφος Ancient Greek
- παράγραφος Ancient Greek
- συγγράφω Ancient Greek
- τοπογράφος Ancient Greek
- χρονογράφος Ancient Greek
- ὁμόγραφος Ancient Greek
- ὑμνογράφος Ancient Greek
- *gerbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *gr̥bʰtós Proto-Indo-European
- -graf Norwegian Bokmål
- -grafia Portuguese
- *kerban- Proto-Germanic
- *kerbaną Proto-Germanic
- *krabitaz Proto-Germanic
- *kurbanaz Proto-Germanic
- *kurbiz Proto-Germanic
- bajskorv Swedish
- korv Swedish
- korvträd Swedish
- potatiskorv Swedish
- stödkorv Swedish
- värmlandskorv Swedish
- グラフィック Japanese
- -graf Norwegian Nynorsk
- ceorfan Old English
- ċeorfan Old English
- bekerven Middle English
- carver Middle English
- corven Middle English
- forkerven Middle English
- graffe Middle English
- kerven Middle English
- kerver Middle English
- grafaic Irish
- γραμμικός Old Norse
- grafit Danish
- *žerbьjь Proto-Slavic
- -graf Czech
- -grafie Czech
- graf Czech
- gramairien Old French
- -grafia Catalan, Valencian
- γράφω Greek (modern)
- γραπτός Greek (modern)
- kerven Middle Dutch
- kërben Middle High German
- *kerban gmw-pro
- ליתוגרפיה Hebrew (modern)
- kervan Old Saxon
- korver Old Swedish
- 그래픽 Korean
- жрѣбии Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- kerfi Sranan Tongo
- جَارْفَا Andalusian Arabic
- *grəpʰō Proto-Hellenic
- out
- -gram
- graft
- graph
- carven
- carver
- -graph
- recarve
- regraft
- becarve
- graphic
- grafter
- engraft
- carvery
- isograft
- carveout
- syngraft
- zoograft
- graftage
- carvable
- graphism
- misgraft
- forcarve
- -grapher
- graftling
- perigraft
- xenograft
- carveable
- allograft
- homograft
- overcarve
- lipograft
- graphical
- graftable
- antigraft
- graftless
- graphicly
- cographic
- postgraft
- autograft
- endograft
- runecarver
- transgraft
- hypergraft
- photograph
- graphology
- orthograft
- woodcarver
- intergraft
- uncarvable
- anti-graft
- micrograft
- cleftgraft
- intragraft
- graphician
- nongraphic
- perigraphic
- heterograft
- infographic
- graftectomy
- lithography
- graphically
- graphicness
- melographic
- grammatical
- visuographic
- audiographic
- supergraphic
- graphic design
- electrographic
- aerophotograph
- epileptographic