Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To be in the middle of a landscape.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth. · The central part or point of anything; the middle. · A navel orange. · An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
From Middle English navel, navele, from Old English nafola, from Proto-West Germanic *nabulō, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô (“navel”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl (“navel”), diminutive of *h₃nebʰ- (“hub; navel”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian nâle (“navel”), Dutch navel (“navel”), German Nabel (“navel”), Vilamovian nowuł (“navel”), Yiddish נאָפּל (nopl, “navel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk navle (“navel”), Icelandic nafli (“navel”), Swedish navel (“navel”); also Irish imleacán (“navel”), Scottish Gaelic ilmeag, imleag (“navel; nave”), Kashmiri ناب (nāb, “navel”), Latin umbilīcus (“navel”), Greek αφαλός (afalós), ομφαλός (omfalós, “navel”), Old Prussian nabis (“navel”), Armenian անիվ (aniv, “wheel”), Central Kurdish ناوک (nawik, “navel”), Persian ناف (nâf, “navel”), Sanskrit नाभि (nābhi, “navel; centre”), Doublet of omphalos. More at nave.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*h₃nebʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionnavelenm
- Inherited-form mentionnafolaang
- Inherited-form mention*nabulōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*nabalôgem-pro · navel
- Inherited-form mention*h₃nóbʰōline-pro · navel
- Cognate mentionnâlefy · navel
- Cognate mentionnavelnl · navel
- Cognate mentionNabelde · navel
- Cognate mentionnowułwym · navel
- Cognate mentionנאָפּלyi · navel
- Cognate mentionnafliis · navel
- Cognate mentionnavelsv · navel
- Cognate mentionimleacánga · navel
- Cognate mentionilmeaggd
- Cognate mentionنابks · navel
- Cognate mentionumbilīcusla · navel
- Cognate mentionαφαλόςel
- Cognate mentionnabisprg · navel
- Cognate mentionանիվhy · wheel
- Cognate mentionناوکckb · navel
- Cognate mentionنافfa · navel
- Cognate mentionनाभिsa · navel; centre
- Doublet mentionomphalosen
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