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ve

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Translingual

Symbol

ve

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Venda.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).

Noun

ve (plural ves)

  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.

Etymology 2

First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /vi/
  • Homophones: V, v, vee
  • Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

ve (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative ver, possessive adjective vis, possessive noun vers, reflexive verself)

  1. (rare, epicene, nonstandard) Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.
Synonyms
  • see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Etymology 3

Pronoun

ve

  2. Pronunciation spelling of we.
Derived terms
  • ve haf vays of making you talk

References

Anagrams

  • E.V., EV, Ev, eV, μeV

Äiwoo

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *poli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəli, from Proto-Austronesian *bəli.

Verb

ve

  1. to buy

References

  • Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Old Tosk *vae, from Old Albanian vōe (still at Malagija), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Orel, citing Bopp, Camarda and Çabej, argues the Old Albanian word descends from a borrowing from Latin ōvum. The PIE etymology was earlier supported by Norbert Jokl.

Alternative forms

  • vo — Gheg, vø — Shkodër
  • vö — Arbëresh

Noun

ve f (plural ve, definite veja, definite plural vetë)

  1. egg
    Synonym: vezë
Declension
Hyponyms
  • ve fërgesë (“fried egg”)
  • ve peshku (“fish roe”)
  • ve surbull (“soft-boiled egg”)
  • ve llukë (“rotten egg”)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *widewā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (compare English widow, Latin vidua).

Alternative forms

  • vejë

Adjective

i ve

  1. widowed

Noun

ve f (plural va)

  1. widow, widower
    Synonyms: vejanë, vejushë
Derived terms

References

Arigidi

Etymology

Possibly related to Yoruba rè

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vè/

Verb

vè

  1. to go

Derived terms

  • àvè (“the act of going”)

References

  • B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)
  • Boluwaji Oshodi (2011 December) A Reference Grammar of Arigidi, Montem Paperbacks, →ISBN

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈbe]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈve]
  • Rhymes: -e

Etymology 1

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.
Usage notes
  • In some dialects of Catalan, the sounds associated with the letter b and the letter v are the same: [β]. In order to differentiate the names be and ve in those dialects, the letters are often called be alta (“high B”) and ve baixa (“low V”).
Derived terms
  • ve baixa
  • ve doble

Etymology 2

Verb

ve

  1. third-person singular present indicative of venir

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛ]

Preposition

ve

  1. Alternative form of v (“in”)

Usage notes

  • The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vei, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veːˀ/, [ˈʋeːˀ]
  • Rhymes: -eːˀ

Noun

ve (singular definite veen, plural indefinite veer)

  1. pain
  2. contraction of labour, birth pang

Declension

Further reading

  • “ve” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • “ve” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

East Masela

Noun

ve

  1. water

References

  • Taber, M. (1993). Toward a better understanding of the indigenous languages of southwestern Maluku. Oceanic Linguistics. 32:2. pp. 389-441. Cited in: "East Masela" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German weh, from Proto-Germanic *wai, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; woe!; alas!”). Compare Yiddish וויי (vey), Dutch wee, Latin vae, Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí), Spanish guay, Italian guai, dialectal French vé, Welsh gwae, Latvian vai, Persian وای (vây), Arabic وَيْل (wayl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ve

Interjection

ve

  1. alas, woe

Faroese

Etymology

Ultimately, from Latin vē.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veː/

Noun

ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Declension

Synonyms

  • (archaic) vaff, vavv

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

French

Noun

ve (plural ves)

  1. Abbreviation of veuve.

Galician

Verb

ve

  1. inflection of ver:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French ver (“worm”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/

Noun

ve

  1. worm

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/, /vɛ/

Etymology 1

From Esperanto ve, from German weh. Compare also Latin vae.

Interjection

ve

  1. alas, oh dear

Etymology 2

From v +‎ -e.

Noun

ve (plural ve-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter V/v.
See also
  • Latin script letter names: literi: a · be · ce · che · de · e · fe · ge · he · i · je · ke · le · me · ne · o · pe · que · re · se · she · te · u · ve · we · xe · ye · ze [edit]

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch vee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛ/, [ˈfɛ]

Noun

vè (plural ve-ve)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Synonyms

  • vi (Standard Malay)

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) huruf; a, be, ce, de, e, ef, ge, ha, i, je, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, ki, er, es, te, u, ve, we, eks, ye, zet

Further reading

  • “ve” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ve

Pronoun

ve

  1. Alternative form of vi (“to you”)
    Ve lo consiglio ― I recommend it (to you)
    Ve ne ne sarei molto grato ― It would be nice of you

Usage notes

  • Used when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

See also

Japanese

Romanization

ve

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ゔぇ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ゑ゙
  3. Rōmaji transcription of ヴェ
  4. Rōmaji transcription of ヹ

Lahu

Particle

ve

  1. particle used after a verb similar in function to English "to". E.g. "ha ve" = "to winnow"
  2. Relativizer particle

Mandarin

Romanization

ve

  1. Nonstandard spelling of vê̄.

Usage notes

  • 《汉语拼音方案》 (Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) defines a standard pronunciation for each letter in Hanyu Pinyin with Zhuyin. In the case of V, it is defined as ㄪㄝ, using the otherwise-obsolete initial ㄪ (vō /⁠v⁠/). This is one of the only instances of the letter being used in standard Pinyin.
  • 《汉语拼音方案》 (Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) defines a standard pronunciation for each letter in Hanyu Pinyin with Zhuyin. ㄝ (/⁠ɛ⁠/) typically only occurs in syllables with an initial glide (e.g. ㄧㄝ (-ie /⁠i̯ɛ⁠/)), where it is romanized as e. When it occurs in syllables without an initial glide, however, it is romanized as ê in order to distinguish it from ㄜ (-e /⁠ɤ⁠/). Such instances are rare, and are only found in interjections or neologisms.
  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Pronoun

ve

  1. Alternative form of we (“we”)

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/
  • Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

  1. you (formal or plural, reflexive or dative or accusative)

Coordinate terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vé, from Proto-Germanic *wīhą.

Noun

ve n (definite singular veet, indefinite plural ve, definite plural vea)

  1. (historical, in Norse times) holy place, place of offering
Derived terms
  • varg i veum
Related terms

Male given names:

Female given names:

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Interjection

ve

  1. woe!
Related terms
  • våla

Etymology 3

From Old Norse vé, from Low German. Compare the interjection above.

Noun

ve m (definite singular veen, indefinite plural vear, definite plural veane)

  1. birth pang
    Synonym: (føde)ri
  2. pain, longing
    ve og vel ― welfare (literally, “pain and wellness”)
Derived terms
  • fødselsve

References

  • “ve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

  1. vee (the letter v, V)

Derived terms

  • ve dobla

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

See va.

Noun

ve

  1. locative singular of va (“letter 'v'”)

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

ve (Cyrillic spelling ве)

  1. (Kajkavian) now
    Synonym: sada

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋéː/

Pronoun

vẹ̑

  1. you (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)
  2. (formal) you (feminine and neuter singular)

Declension

See also

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbe/ [ˈbe]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: ve
  • Homophone: be

Etymology 1

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.
    Synonyms: uve, ve corta
Derived terms
References


Etymology 2

Verb

ve

  1. inflection of ver:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. second-person singular voseo imperative

Etymology 3

Verb

ve

  1. second-person singular imperative of ir
Usage notes
  • The voseo imperative of ir is typically replaced with the imperative of andar, that is andá.

References

Further reading

  • “ve”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.

Cognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veː/
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Homophone: V (the letter)

Interjection

ve

  1. woe, pity you!

Noun

ve n

  1. woe, misery

Declension

Derived terms

  • veklaga
  • veklagan
  • vemod
  • verop

Related terms

  • väl och ve

References

  • ve in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
  • ve in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
  • ve in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

  • ev.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ve, the Spanish name of the letter V/v.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈve/ [ˈvɛ]
    • IPA(key): (more native-sounding) /ˈbe/ [ˈbɛ]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: ve

Noun

ve (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒ)

  1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter V/v, in the Abecedario
    Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) vi

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ve/

Etymology 1

Noun

ve

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish و (ve), from Arabic وَ (wa).

Conjunction

ve

  1. and
See also
  • (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vɛ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [vɛ˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [vɛ˧˧] ~ [jɛ˧˧]
  • Homophone: de

Etymology 1

Attested as ue in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

Probably onomatopoeic, from the cry of the cicada.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “do the "cicada" and "tick" senses have a common etymology?”)

Noun

(classifier con) ve • (蟡, 爲, 為) (phonemic reduplicative ve ve)

  1. cicada
    Synonym: ve sầu
  2. tick
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ve • (䃣, 𡐮)

  1. small bottle or jar
  2. (only in compounds) glass (substance)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

ve • (𢠿)

  1. (chiefly in compounds) to flirt
Derived terms

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