veine

See also: veiné

Estonian

Noun

veine

1. partitive plural of vein

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French vene, from Old French veine, from Latin vēna, of uncertain Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛn/

• Audio; “une veine”:

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• Homophones: vaine, vaines, veinent, veines, vène, vènent, vènes

Noun

veine f (plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein
2. (geology) vein, seam
3. (informal) luck
   • 1961, Christiane Rochefort, Les petits enfants du siècle, Grasset, page 7:

     Zut dit mon père c’est pas de veine, à quinze jours on loupe la prime.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. inspiration

Derived terms

• avoir de la veine
• dans la même veine
• déveine
• veinard
• veiner

 

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: ven

Further reading

• “veine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• envie, en vie, envié

Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvæi̯n(ə)/

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna.

Noun

veine (plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein (blood vessel)
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:

     Whan that Auerill w^t his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour […]

     When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made […]

Alternative forms

• vein, vene, veyne, vena, vain, vaine, wein, weine, wain, waine, wane

Descendants

• English: vein
• Scots: van, vane, vain, vaine

References

• “vein(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French veine, from Latin vēnia, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂; doublet of wynne (“happiness”).

Noun

veine (plural veines)

1. (Christianity) An act of penitence or supplication involving some form of kneeling or prostration.

Descendants

• English: veyne

References

• “veine, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

veine (third-person singular simple present veineth, present participle veinende, veinynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle veined)

1. Alternative form of waynen (“to transport via wagon”)

Etymology 4

Adjective

veine

1. Alternative form of vein (“vain”)

Etymology 5

Noun

veine

1. Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French veine, from Latin vēna.

Noun

veine f (plural veines)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) vein

Derived terms

• veine varice (“varicose vein”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• vaine, veyne

Etymology

From Latin vēna.

Noun

veine oblique singular, f (oblique plural veines, nominative singular veine, nominative plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein

Descendants

• Middle French: vene
  • French: veine
    • → Vietnamese: ven
• Norman: veine
• → Middle English: veine
  • English: vein
  • Scots: van, vane, vain, vaine

Wogeo

Noun

veine

1. woman

References

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm,New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976): PAN *binay, *babinay woman: the longer forms coming into PN as wahine, is present in Manus as *pihin, "bihin, and in Wogeo as veine, [...]
• Herbert Ian Hogbin, The Leaders and the Led: Social Control in Wogeo, New Guinea (1978)