veer
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɪə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /vɪ(ə)ɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɪə(r)
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).
VerbEdit
veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)
- (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 12:
- As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 12:
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Middle French virer.
NounEdit
veer (plural veers)
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)
- (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
- The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
- (Can we date this quote?), Dryden:
- And as he leads, the following navy veers.
- (Can we date this quote?), Burke:
- An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
- 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
- At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.
- (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).[1]
- (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.[1]
- (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
- (transitive) To turn.
AntonymsEdit
- (of the wind, to shift clockwise): back
- (of the wind, to shift aft): haul forward
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ReferencesEdit
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse vei, from Proto-Germanic *wai.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
veer
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
veer
ReferencesEdit
- “veer” in Anders Bjerrum and Marie Bjerrum (1974), Ordbog over Fjoldemålet, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
A contraction of veder, from Middle Dutch vedere, from Old Dutch fethara, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). The sense "spring" is derived from the ability of feathers to resume their shape when bent.
Cognate with Low German Fedder, German Feder, West Frisian fear, English feather, Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder.
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
veer f (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)
Derived termsEdit
VerbEdit
veer
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Dutch vere, from Old Dutch feri, from Proto-Germanic *farją.
Cognate with German Fähre.
NounEdit
veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
Dutch Low SaxonEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- vaaier (Gronings)
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately cognate to German vier.
NumeralEdit
veer
- four (4)
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *veeri.
NounEdit
veer (genitive veere, partitive veert)
DeclensionEdit
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | veer | veered |
| accusative | veere | veered |
| genitive | veere | veerte |
| partitive | veert | veeri |
| illative | veerde veeresse |
veertesse veerisse |
| inessive | veeres | veertes veeris |
| elative | veerest | veertest veerist |
| allative | veerele | veertele veerile |
| adessive | veerel | veertel veeril |
| ablative | veerelt | veertelt veerilt |
| translative | veereks | veerteks veeriks |
| terminative | veereni | veerteni |
| essive | veerena | veertena |
| abessive | veereta | veerteta |
| comitative | veerega | veertega |
German Low GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately cognate to German vier, English four.
NumeralEdit
veer
- (in some dialects, including Low Prussian and Münsterländisch) four (4)
See alsoEdit
- Plautdietsch: veea
Old FrenchEdit
Old PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
veer
- to see
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)
- Ay ondas que eu uin ueer / ſe me ſaberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo sẽ mj
- Oh waves that I came to see / say unto me / Why my lover lingers thus away from me?
- Ay ondas que eu uin ueer / ſe me ſaberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo sẽ mj
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)
