schoven

schoven

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -oːvən

Noun

schoven

1. Plural form of schoof

Verb

schoven

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of schuiven

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• shoven, schouven, scheven, scheve, schovyn, showve, scheove, schwve, schowve, schouve, schove

Etymology

From Old English sċūfan, sċēofan (the latter is the ancestor of the variant scheven) from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, *skūbaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuvən/, /ˈʃuːvən/, /ˈʃeːvən/

Verb

schoven

1. To shove; to move (often forcibly) by direct physical force:
   1. To shove to the ground; to knock down or over.
   2. To stab or impale; to move a weapon into something.
   3. To shove and throw into something.
2. To force from something; to remove forcibly or unwillingly:
3. To move weather or atmospheric conditions.
4. To enter or go somewhere (often when facing resistance)
5. (rare) To decline or refuse to accept (or continue accepting).
6. (rare) To resist shoving or pushing.
7. (rare) To promote or improve one's standings.
8. (rare) To crawl or mill about as a crowd.
9. (rare) To secure or reinforce.

Usage notes

This verb tends to become weak in later Middle English.

Conjugation

Conjugation of schoven (strong class 2/weak)

infinitive	(to) schoven
indicative	present	past
1st person singular	schove	schef, schof, schoved
2nd person singular	schovest	schef, schof, *shovest
3rd person singular	schoveþ, schoveth	schef, schof, schoved
plural	schoven	schov(en), schoved(en)
subjunctive	present	past
singular	schove	schofe
plural	schoven	schov(en), schoved(en)
imperative	present
singular	schove
plural	schoveþ, schoveth
participle	present	past
	schovende, schovinge	schov(en), schoved

Related terms

• schovel
• schovynge, schowynge

Descendants

• English: shove
• Scots: shuve

References

• “shǒuven (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-22.