klyva
Swedish
verb-irr
Definitions
- to split, to cleave
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish klȳva, klyva inherited from Old Norse kljúfa (split) inherited from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną (split, cleave, pick) derived from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (split, cut, carve, peel, divide, slice, cleave), *glewbʰ- (split, cut, carve, peel, divide, slice, cleave).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*glewbʰ-
Gloss
split, cut, carve, peel, divide, slice, cleave
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
分
Emoji
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- autocleave English
- cleavability English
- cleavable English
- cleavage English
- cleave English
- cleaver English
- cleavest English
- cleaveth English
- geoglyph English
- miscleave English
- photocleave English
- recleave English
- tocleave English
- klyyvari Finnish
- glubo Latin
- glūma Latin
- kloven Dutch, Flemish
- γλυπτός Ancient Greek
- γλύφω Ancient Greek
- *glewbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *(ga)kluftiz, *kluftiz Proto-Germanic
- *klaubijaną Proto-Germanic
- *klebô Proto-Germanic
- *kleubaną Proto-Germanic
- *kluftiz Proto-Germanic
- hår Swedish
- hårklyveri Swedish
- klyvare Swedish
- kløyva Norwegian Nynorsk
- cleofan Old English
- cleven Middle English
- kljúfa Old Norse
- kløve Danish
- *glǫb Proto-Slavic
- kljúfa Icelandic
- klúgva Faroese
- *kleuban gmw-pro
- *clievan Old Dutch
- mdw nṯr Egyptian
- kliovan Old Saxon
- klyva Old Swedish
- klȳva, klyva Old Swedish
- kløva Scanian