delve

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

fouiller

creuser

pénétrer

remettre

retourner

sonder

cavité creusée

entamer

Synonymes

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

ditch

draw out

dredge

drill

drive

drudge

elicit

extract

extricate

grub

Traductions

delven

cavar

araştırmak

bellemek

graven

afgraving

ahondar

bucear

investigar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɛlv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: delven

Hérité de ancien anglais: delfan

Appartenant à frison occidental: dolle

Appartenant à néerlandais: delven

Appartenant à bas-allemand: dölven

Appartenant à allemand: delben

Hérité de moyen anglais: delve

Hérité de ancien anglais: 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”).