delve

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
2. (ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
3. (ambitransitive) To dig; to excavate.

Noun

A pit or den.

Sinonieme

dig

excavate

burrow

hollow

search

dig up

mine

unearth

rake

dig out

scrabble

cut into

shave

explore

rummage

scratch

scrape

turn over

hoe

hollow out

investigate

pit

poke into

probe

quarry

ransack

ream

remove

rout

sap

seek

🔍

slave

take out

trench

withdraw

go deep

kar

depression

research

root around

to work hard

excavated hole

hgollow

cave

cavity

chuckhole

colliery

cut

den

dig into

Vertalings

σκάβω

delven

indagare

cavar

creuser

fouiller

cavar

bellemek

حفر

araştırmak

fare ricerche

cavar

استبط

استبحر

نقب

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dɛlv/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: delven

Geërf van Old English: delfan

Verwante met Fries: dolle

Verwante met Nederlands: delven

Verwante met Nederduits: dölven

Verwante met Duits: delben

Geërf van Middle English: delve

Geërf van Old English: delf

In summary

From Middle English delven, from Old English delfan (“to dig, dig out, burrow, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelbʰ- (“to dig”). Cognate with West Frisian dolle (“to dig, delve”), Dutch delven (“to dig, delve”), Low German dölven (“to dig, delve”), dialectal German delben, telben (“to dig, delve”).