nav

From navigation, abbreviation.

nav (uncountable)

1. (transport, military, Internet) Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.

• sat nav

nav (third-person singular simple present navs, present participle navving, simple past and past participle navved)

1. (informal) to navigate

• AVN, VAN, Van, Van., van

From Proto-Brythonic *naw, from Proto-Celtic *nawan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

nav

1. nine

• (cardinal number): Previous: eizh. Next: dek

From Old Norse nǫf (“nave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobʰ- (“navel”).

• IPA^(key): /nav/, [naw], [nawˀ]

nav n (singular definite navet, plural indefinite nav)

1. nave (a hub of a wheel)

• “nav” in Den Danske Ordbog

From an earlier *nam, related to Persian نام‎ (nâm).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑːv/

nav m

1. name

• bênav
• hevenav m
• komenav m
• kurtenav m
• navdêr f
• pêşnav m
• serenav m

Reduced form of navaid from nevaid (both still attested in Latvian dialects), originally the negative form of vaid (“to be located, to be”). (G. F. Stenders, in his 1774 grammar, mentions under nevaid the reduced forms neva, nava and even nav' with an apostrophe.) This form replaced an earlier neir, neira (from ir, ira); compare Latvian nėrà. Forms of vaid are occasionally attested in folk tales and songs; A. Bīlenšteins once heard its infinitive form vaist. It was probably an old perfect form, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, to know”) (“to see (around, where one is)” > “to find oneself, to be located, to be”); cf. Lithuanian vaidalas (“apparition, ghost”).[1]

nav

1. (he, she, it) is not; 3rd person singular present indicative form of nebūt
2. (they) are not; 3rd person plural present indicative form of nebūt
3. (with the particle lai) let (him, her, it) not be; 3rd person singular imperative form of nebūt
4. (with the particle lai) let them not be; 3rd person plural imperative form of būt

From Old Norse nǫf f

nav n (definite singular navet, indefinite plural nav, definite plural nava or navene)

1. a hub (centre of a wheel)

• “nav” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse nǫf f

nav n (definite singular navet, indefinite plural nav, definite plural nava)

1. a hub (centre of a wheel)

• “nav” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• nev (Puter)

From Latin nāvis.

nav f (plural navs)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) ship

From Old Swedish navan, cognate with English nave.

nav n

1. a hub (central part of a wheel)

• navborr
• navkapsel

• nav in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• nav in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.