See also: vég

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /vɛd͡ʒ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛd͡ʒ

Adjective edit

veg (not comparable)

  1. Vegetarian.
    • 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe[1], Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 120:
      The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.
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Noun edit

veg (countable and uncountable, plural vegs or veges or veg)

  1. (colloquial) vegetable(s).
    • 2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 [2], page 5,
      Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, []
    • 2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory[3], →ISBN, page 185:
      [] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.
    • 2007 August 31', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 2:
      Ok, Question 40. Do you get your five fruit and veg?
      Ohh, I mean I certainly try to... I would say, I would say I probably do.
      A day.
      A WHAT??!
    fruit and vegfruit and vegetables
  2. (chiefly India) vegetarian food.
Usage notes edit
  • In colloquial speech this is usually pluralized simply as "veg".
  • In writing this may or may not be followed by a period to mark it as an abbreviation.
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Verb edit

veg (third-person singular simple present vegs or vegges or veges, present participle vegging or veging, simple past and past participle vegged or veged)

  1. (colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest
    After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
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Etymology 2 edit

Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens.[5], [6]

Noun edit

veg (plural vegs)

  1. (psychology) A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.

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Afrikaans edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch vechten, from Middle Dutch vechten, from Old Dutch fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-.

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Verb edit

veg (present veg, present participle vegtende, past participle geveg)

  1. to fight

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Danish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse veikr, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.

Adjective edit

veg

  1. weak, yielding
Inflection edit
Inflection of veg
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular veg vegere vegest2
Indefinite neuter singular vegt vegere vegest2
Plural vege vegere vegest2
Definite attributive1 vege vegere vegeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

veg

  1. past of vige

Jamtish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.

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Noun edit

veg m

  1. way, road

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Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

Noun edit

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural veger, definite plural vegene)

  1. road
  2. way
  3. direction

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ʋeːɡ], [ʋæːɡ]

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Akin to English way.

Noun edit

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural vegar, definite plural vegane)

  1. road
  2. way
  3. direction
    bane veg - pave the way
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Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

veg

  1. present of vega
  2. imperative of vega

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Noun edit

veg

  1. accusative singular of vegr

Volapük edit

Etymology edit

From German Weg.

Noun edit

veg (nominative plural vegs)

  1. road, way

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