ve

ve

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

Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).

ve (plural ves)

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

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.[1] In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish."[2] Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).

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

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.
   • [1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, reprint edition, New York: Penguin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 425–426:

     And stop calling it 'it': yer got yer one great invention, remember Holmes? The neuter personal pronoun; ve/ver/vis, I am not his, vis/ve/ver, nor am I for her, ver/vis/ve, a pronoun for me, (slopping another tin of water out ready).]

   • 1995, Greg Egan, Distress, reprint edition, London: Phoenix, published 1996, →ISBN, page 223:

     Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.

   • 1997, Greg Egan, Diaspora, reprint edition, New York: HarperPrism, published 1998, →ISBN, page 52:

     Yatima felt distinctly stretched by the process—but vis symbols were still connected to each other in the same way as before. Ve was still verself.

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

• E.V., EV, Ev, eV, μeV

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

ve

1. to buy

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

• (Gheg): vo
• (Shkodër): vø
• (Arbëresh): vö

From Old Tosk *vae, from Old Albanian vōe (still at Malagija),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Orel, citing Bopp, Camarda and Çabej, argues the Old Albanian word descends from a borrowing from Latin ōvum.[2] The PIE etymology was earlier supported by Norbert Jokl.

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

1. egg

• vezë

• ve fërgesë (“fried egg”)
• ve peshku (“fish roe”)
• ve surbull (“soft-boiled egg”)
• ve llukë (“rotten egg”)

Vowel shortened from dialectal vē (identical to plural), from dialectal vejë, from Proto-Albanian *widewā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (compare English widow, Latin vidua).

• vejë

i ve m (feminine e ve, masculine plural të ve)

1. widowed

ve f (indefinite plural va)

1. widow, widower

• vejanë, vejushë

Possibly related to Yoruba rè

• IPA^(key): /vè/

vè

1. to go

• àvè (“the act of going”)

• 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 (December 2011) A Reference Grammar of Arigidi, Montem Paperbacks, →ISBN

• Rhymes: -e

ve f (plural ves)

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

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”).

• ve baixa
• ve doble

ve

1. third-person singular present indicative form of venir

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛ]

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ve

1. in

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

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

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

ve (singular definite veen, plural indefinite veer)

1. pain
2. contraction of labour, birth pang

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

ve

1. water

• 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.

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).

• IPA^(key): [ve]
• Hyphenation: ve

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ve

1. alas, woe

Ultimately, from Latin vē.

• IPA^(key): /veː/

ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)

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

• (archaic) vaff, vavv

• (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

v^e (plural v^es)

1. Abbreviation of veuve.

ve

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

From French ver (“worm”).

ve

1. worm

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

• IPA^(key): /ve/, /vɛ/

ve (plural ve-i)

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

• (Latin script letter names) litero; 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 ^{(Category: io:Latin letter names)}

ve

1. alas, oh dear

   Ve! Me obliviis la furnelo acendite!

   Oh dear! I forgot the stove on!

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

ve

1. Alternative form of vi (“to you”)

   Ve lo consiglio ― I recommend it (to you)

   Ve ne ne sarei molto grato ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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

ve

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

ve

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

ve

1. Alternative form of we (“we”)

• IPA^(key): /ve/
• Rhymes: -e

ve

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

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

ve

1. woe!

• våle

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

1. birth pang(s)
2. pain, longing

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

1. (obsolete except in "ve og vel") pain

• ri

• fødselsve

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

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

1. (historical, in Norse times) holy place, place of offering

• varg i veum

• “ve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

ve f (plural ves)

1. vee (the letter v, V)

• ve dobla

ve (Cyrillic spelling ве)

1. (Kajkavian) now

• sada

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

• IPA^(key): /ʋéː/

vẹ̑

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

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

ve f (plural ves)

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

   Synonyms: uve, ve corta

ve

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

• The voseo imperative of ir is typically replaced with the imperative of andar, that is andá.[1]

• “ve”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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.

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

ve

1. woe, pity you!

   ve dig!

   ack och ve!

ve n

1. woe, misery

   ditt väl och ve

   your weal and woe, your fortune and misery

   Ve och fasa!

   Woe and horror! (Horror of horrors!)

• veklaga
• veklagan
• vemod
• verop

• 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)

• ev.

• IPA^(key): /ve/

ve

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

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

ve

1. and

• (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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧] ~ [jɛ˧˧]
• Homophone: de

From Middle Vietnamese ue. Probably onomatopoeic, from the cry of the cicada.

(classifier con) ve • (蟡)

1. cicada

   Synonyms: ve sầu, ve ve

2. tick

From French verre (“glass (substance); objects made of that substance”).

ve • (䃣, 𡐮)

1. small bottle or jar
2. glass (substance) (only in the compound bi ve (“glass marble”))

ve • (𢠿)

1. (chiefly in compounds) to flirt

From Old Norse vér, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.

• (common) IPA^(key): [ʋéː]
• (southern regional) IPA^(key): [ʋíː]
• (rare, Kalix), IPA^(key): [wéː]

  Rhymes: -éː

• (unstressed) IPA^(key): [ʋe̞]

  Rhymes: -ɛ

ve

1. First person plural pronoun; we (singular jig, jeg).

• we
• vä
• wä

ve

1. Alternative form of wä (“with”)

ve m

1. Alternative form of ved (“wood”)