Etymology

karve

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Today it means: a multipurpose intermediate size Viking longship Full definition →

Old Norse karfi ← Swedish karve ← Danish karve
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The story

  1. Danish · borrowed fromkarve
  2. Swedish · borrowed fromkarve
  3. Old Norse · borrowed fromkarfi
  4. English todaykarve

Borrowed from Old Norse karfi, or one of its descendants, potentially Swedish karve, or Danish karve.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.