delve

Significado (Inglês)

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.

dig

excavate

cut into

poke into

kar

to work hard

excavated hole

hgollow

Freqüência

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dɛlv/

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”).