venven

Maltese

Root
v-n-v-n
2 terms

Etymology

Inherited from chiefly dialectal Arabic وَنْوَن (wanwan), reduplication of وَنّ (wann), itself probably from classical أَنَّ (ʔanna).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.vɛn/

• Audio:

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Verb

venven (imperfect jvenven, verbal noun tvenvin)

1. to whirl, howl, bluster (of wind)

Conjugation

Conjugation of venven
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	venvint	venvint	venven		venvinna	venvintu	venvnu
	f			venvnet
imperfect	m	nvenven	tvenven	jvenven		nvenvnu	tvenvnu	jvenvnu
	f			tvenven
imperative			venven				venvnu

References

• Borg, Alexander (2021) Rewriting Dialectal Arabic Prehistory. The Ancient Egyptian Lexical Evidence (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 105)‎^[1], Leiden: Brill, published 2021, →ISBN, page 361 seq.