See also: -ves, VES, ves, veś, veš, and vês

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vés

  1. Pre-2016 spelling of venen (second singular imperative of anar).

Usage notes edit

The spelling vés was deprecated in the 2016 spelling reform. The old spelling can still be used for metalinguistic transcriptions, or when the intended meaning is not clear from the context. See Appendix:Catalan orthography.

French edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (file)

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vés m

  1. plural of

Galician edit

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vés

  1. second-person singular present indicative of vir

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *wäŋćɜ (knife; cut). Cognates include Finnish veitsi.[1][2]

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vés

  1. (transitive) to chisel, carve
  2. (transitive, figuratively) to remember (to impress on one's mind or heart)
    Vésd az eszedbe a szavamat!Mark my words!
  3. (transitive, colloquial, humorous) to write

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(With verbal prefixes):

References edit

  1. ^ Entry #1132 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ vés in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading edit

  • vés in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Kabuverdianu edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese vez.

Noun edit

vés

  1. times (multiply)
  2. turn (in a game)