Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse gnaga. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål gnage, Norwegian Nynorsk gnaga, Swedish gnaga, German nagen, Dutch knagen. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰnēgʰ- (“to gnaw, scratch”).
Verb
gnave (imperative gnav, present tense gnaver, simple past gnavede, past participle gnavet)
- to gnaw
Latin
Adjective
gnāve
References
- “gnave”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gnave in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.