delve

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

indagare

fare ricerche

investigare

scavare

escavazione

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

delven

σκάβω

fouiller

cavar

creuser

cavar

araştırmak

bellemek

حفر

cavar

نقب

اجتهد

استبحر

استبط

إستبطن

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/dɛlv/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: delven

Ereditato da inglese antico: delfan

Affine frisone occidentale: dolle

Affine olandese: delven

Affine basso tedesco: dölven

Affine tedesco: delben

Ereditato da inglese medio: delve

Ereditato da inglese antico: 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”).