navle

From Old Norse nafli, from Proto-Germanic *nabalô, cognate with English navel, German Nabel. The Germanic word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobʰ- (“navel, nave”), which is also the source of Latin umbilīcus, Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), and the Germanic word for "nave", *nabō.

• IPA^(key): /navlə/, [ˈnɑwlə]
• Homophone: nagle

navle c (singular definite navlen, plural indefinite navler)

1. navel

• navle on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

navle

1. Alternative form of navel

From Old Norse nafli.

navle m (definite singular navlen, indefinite plural navler, definite plural navlene)

1. a navel

• navlestreng

• “navle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse nafli.

navle m (definite singular navlen, indefinite plural navlar, definite plural navlane)

1. a navel

• navlestreng

• “navle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.