navle

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse nafli, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô, cognate with English navel, German Nabel. The Germanic word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobʰ- (“navel, nave”), which is also the source of Latin umbilīcus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), and the Germanic word for "nave", *nabō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /navlə/, [ˈnɑwlə]
• Homophone: nagle

Noun

navle c (singular definite navlen, plural indefinite navler)

1. navel

Declension

Declension of navle

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	navle	navlen	navler	navlerne
genitive	navles	navlens	navlers	navlernes

Further reading

• navle on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Middle English

Noun

navle

1. Alternative form of navel

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse nafli.

Noun

navle m (definite singular navlen, indefinite plural navler, definite plural navlene)

1. a navel

Derived terms

• navlestreng

References

• “navle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse nafli.

Noun

navle m (definite singular navlen, indefinite plural navlar, definite plural navlane)

1. a navel

Derived terms

• navlestreng

References

• “navle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.