nieve

noun

1. Archaic Northern British and Scot. Dialect. a clenched or closed hand; fist.

adjective

1. a frequent misspelling of naive.

noun

1. Scot and Northern English dialect the closed hand; fist

n.

“clenched fist” (northern and Scottish dialect), c.1300, from Old Norse hnefi (cf. Norwegian dialectal neve, Swedish näfve, Danish næve), not found in other Germanic languages.