navel – English noun declension

English noun forms of navel

Noun: navel
Singularnavel
Pluralnavels

Sample Sentences

  • Within the navel of this hideous wood,
  • Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells,
  • Of Bacchus and Circe born, great Comus [1637, John Milton, A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:]
  • Sweeter than the muſk of Tatar, the morning breeze from the navel of every flower raviſhed perfume. [1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:]
  • We sat alfresco on the edge of a “square,” in reality a pond of cobbly mud with a plinth plonked in its navel […] [2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:]
  • This contributed to a rapid rise in planted acreage in northern California, especially in navels, which are more suited to growing conditions there. [1981, Peter K. Thor, Edward V. Jesse, Economic Effects of Terminating Federal Marketing Orders for California-Arizona Oranges:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Cognates
3. 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”),
4. Doublet of omphalos. More at nave. See: Middle English Nouns 'navel', Old English Nouns 'nafola', Dutch Nouns 'navel', German Nouns 'Nabel', Icelandic Nouns 'nafli', Swedish Nouns 'navel', Irish Nouns 'imleacán', Latin Nouns 'umbilīcus', Greek Nouns 'αφαλός'.

Verbs referencing "navel"

Ancient Greek Nouns ὀμφαλός, Danish Nouns navle.