ve
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
ve
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).
NounEdit
ve (plural ves)
- The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.
Etymology 2Edit
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).
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ve (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative ver, possessive adjective vis, possessive noun vers, reflexive verself)
- (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).]
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Philologus. “Notes and Queries: An Epicene Personal Pronoun Needed.” The Ladies’ Repository, July 1864, p. 439. Archived here
- ^ Verda One. “Manglish.” Everywoman, 8 May 1970, p. 2.
AnagramsEdit
AiwooEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Oceanic *poli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəli, from Proto-Austronesian *bəli.
VerbEdit
ve
- to buy
ReferencesEdit
- Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.
AlbanianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
ve f (indefinite plural ve, definite singular veja, definite plural vetë)
DeclensionEdit
HyponymsEdit
- ve fërgesë (“fried egg”)
- ve peshku (“fish roe”)
- ve surbull (“soft-boiled egg”)
- ve llukë (“rotten egg”)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
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).
Alternative formsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
i ve m (feminine e ve, masculine plural të ve)
NounEdit
ve f (indefinite plural va)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Martin E. Huld, Basic Albanian Etymologies (Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1984), 125.
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 497
ArigidiEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
vè
- to go
Derived termsEdit
- àvè (“the act of going”)
ReferencesEdit
- 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
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -e
NounEdit
ve f (plural ves)
- The name of the Latin-script letter V.
Usage notesEdit
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 termsEdit
VerbEdit
ve
- third-person singular present indicative form of venir
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
ve
Usage notesEdit
- The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse vei, from Proto-Germanic *wai.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ve (singular definite veen, plural indefinite veer)
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- “ve” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “ve” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
East MaselaEdit
NounEdit
ve
ReferencesEdit
- 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.
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
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InterjectionEdit
ve
FaroeseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)
- The name of the Latin-script letter V.
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ve | ||||
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n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ve | veið | ve | veini |
accusative | ve | veið | ve | veini |
dative | vei | veinum | veum | veunum |
genitive | ves | vesins | vea | veanna |
SynonymsEdit
See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
NounEdit
ve (plural ves)
- Abbreviation of veuve.
GalicianEdit
VerbEdit
ve
- inflection of ver:
Haitian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
ve
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Esperanto ve, from German weh. Compare also Latin vae.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ve (plural ve-i)
- The name of the Latin script letter V/v.
See alsoEdit
- (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)
InterjectionEdit
ve
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ve
- 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)
Usage notesEdit
See alsoEdit
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Conjunctive | Disjunctive | Locative | Partitive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | first | — | io | mi, m', -mi | me | me | — | |||
second | — | tu | ti, t', -ti | te | te | |||||
third | m | lui | si2, s', -si | lo, l', -lo | gli, -gli | glie, se2 | lui, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | |
f | lei, Lei1 | la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1 | le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1 | lei, Lei1, sé | ||||||
Plural | first | — | noi | ci, c', -ci | ce | noi | — | |||
second | — | voi, Voi4 | vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4 | ve | voi, Voi4 | |||||
third | m | loro, Loro1 | si, s', -si | li, Li1, -li, -Li1 | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1 |
glie, se | loro, Loro1, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | |
f | le, Le1, -le, -Le1 | |||||||||
1 | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | |||||||||
2 | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | |||||||||
3 | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | |||||||||
4 | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). |
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
ve
LahuEdit
ParticleEdit
ve
Middle EnglishEdit
PronounEdit
ve
- Alternative form of we (“we”)
NeapolitanEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ve
- you (formal or plural, reflexive or dative or accusative)
Coordinate termsEdit
Number | Person | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Reflexive | Possessive | Prepositional |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | first-person | io (i') | me | mìo, mìa, mieje, meje | me, méne | ||
second-person, familiar | tu | te | tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje | te, téne | |||
second-person, formal | vuje | ve | vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste | vuje | |||
third-person, masculine | ìsso | 'o, 'u (lo, lu) | 'i, 'e (li, le) | se | sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje | ìsso | |
third-person, feminine | éssa | 'a (la) | 'e (le) | éssa | |||
plural | first-person | nuje | ce | nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste | nuje | ||
second-person, plural | vuje | ve | vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste | vuje | |||
third-person, masculine | ìsse | 'i, 'e (li, le) | llòro | se | llòro (invariable) | llòro | |
third-person, feminine | llòro | 'e (le) |
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai.
InterjectionEdit
ve
- woe!
Related termsEdit
NounEdit
ve m (definite singular veen, indefinite plural vear, definite plural veane)
- birth pang(s)
- pain, longing
ve n (definite singular veet, indefinite plural ve, definite plural vea)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse vé, from Proto-Germanic *wīhą.
NounEdit
ve n (definite singular veet, indefinite plural ve, definite plural vea)
- (historical, in Norse times) holy place, place of offering
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “ve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
OccitanEdit
NounEdit
ve f (plural ves)
- vee (the letter v, V)
Derived termsEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
AdverbEdit
ve (Cyrillic spelling ве)
SynonymsEdit
SloveneEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
vẹ̑
InflectionEdit
singular | |||
---|---|---|---|
1st person | 2nd person | reflexive | |
nominative | jàz | tí | — |
accusative | méne, me | tébe, te | sébe, se |
genitive | méne, me | tébe, te | sébe, se |
dative | méni, mi | tébi, ti | sébi, si |
locative | méni | tébi | sébi |
instrumental | menój, máno | tebój, tábo | sebój, sábo |
possessive | mój | tvój | svój |
dual | |||
1st person | 2nd person | reflexive | |
nominative | mídva m, médve/mídve f or n | vídva m, védve/vídve f or n | — |
accusative | náju | váju | sébe, se |
genitive | náju | váju | sébe, se |
dative | náma | váma | sébi, si |
locative | náju | váju | sébi |
instrumental | náma | váma | sebój, sábo |
possessive | nájin | vájin | svój |
plural | |||
1st person | 2nd person | reflexive | |
nominative | mí m, mé f or n | ví m, vé f or n | — |
accusative | nàs | vàs | sébe, se |
genitive | nàs | vàs | sébe, se |
dative | nàm | vàm | sébi, si |
locative | nàs | vàs | sébi |
instrumental | nàmi | vàmi | sebój, sábo |
possessive | nàš | vàš | svój |
See alsoEdit
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ve f (plural ves)
- The name of the Latin-script letter V.
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
VerbEdit
ve
- inflection of ver:
- second-person singular imperative of ir
Usage notesEdit
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- “ve”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
ve
- woe, pity you!
- ve dig!
- ack och ve!
NounEdit
ve n
- woe, misery
- ditt väl och ve
- your weal and woe, your fortune and misery
- Ve och fasa!
- Woe and horror! (Horror of horrors!)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ve | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ve | ve | ve | ve |
Genitive | ves | ves | ves | ves |
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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)
AnagramsEdit
TurkishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
ve
- The name of the Latin-script letter V.
Etymology 2Edit
From Ottoman Turkish و (ve), from Arabic وَ (wa).
ConjunctionEdit
ve
See alsoEdit
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [vɛ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [vɛ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [vɛ˧˧] ~ [jɛ˧˧]
- Homophone: de
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Vietnamese ue. Probably onomatopoeic, from the cry of the cicada.
NounEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From French verre (“glass (substance); objects made of that substance”).
NounEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
- (chiefly in compounds) to flirt
See alsoEdit
WestrobothnianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse vér, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, plural of *éǵh₂.
PronunciationEdit
- (common) IPA(key): [ʋéː]
- (southern regional) IPA(key): [ʋíː]
- (rare, Kalix), IPA(key): [wéː]
- Rhymes: -éː
- (unstressed) IPA(key): [ʋe̞]
- Rhymes: -ɛ
PronounEdit
ve
DeclensionEdit
number | first person | second person | reflexive | third person | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
case | singular | singular masculine | singular feminine | singular neuter | ||
nominative | jig, jeg, jög | du, döu | hɑnn, hånn | hu, ho, hon | he | |
accusative | meg | deg | seg | hana, na, a, hänner | he, ne, e | |
dative | meg (me) | deg (de) | seg (se) | hönöm, hano, håno | hannar, hänner, hennar, henar, nar | dy, dyij, di |
genitive | min, myin | din, dyin | sin, syin | hɑnʃ, hansches, hånsch | hannars, hännars, hennars, henars | diss |
case | plural | plural masculine | plural feminine | plural neuter | ||
nominative | ve | ge, je, ji | de, di, dȯm, dem, döm | |||
accusative | ass, åss | ge, je, ji | seg | |||
dative | ass, åss | gerom, irom | seg (se) | dȯm, dem, döm, do | ||
genitive | vor, wȯhn, våor, vånn, voden | jera, jänn, jern, iden, jedar, idar | sin, syin | dern, dera, däris, daires | dera, däris, daires | derä |
Alternative formsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PrepositionEdit
ve
- Alternative form of wä (“with”)
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
ve m
- Alternative form of ved (“wood”)