delve

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

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

Noun

A pit or den.

Sinónimos

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

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/dɛlv/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: delven

Herdado de Old English: delfan

Relativo a frisón occidental: dolle

Relativo a neerlandés: delven

Relativo a baixo alemán: dölven

Relativo a alemán: delben

Herdado de Middle English: delve

Herdado de 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”).