See also: véve and vevé

English

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Etymology

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From Haitian Creole vèvè, from Portuguese viver (to live).

Noun

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veve (plural veves)

  1. (voodoo) Any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa. [from 20th c.]
    • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 69:
      The vever, as a cabbala-like method of invoking the gods, was included as a primary ceremonial device in Rada.
    • 1995, Robert Farris Thompson, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 103:
      The vèvè for Simbi, lord of healing, bristles with all sorts of allusions to the Kongo medicines of God, leaves, horns, water, and stars.
    • 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 15:
      The indigenous practice of sand painting was preserved in the practice of creating vévés, intricate drawings in cornmeal that were used to call various spirits.

Adjective

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veve

  1. bitter

Guaraní

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Etymology

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Compare Old Tupi bebé.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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veve

  1. flight

Verb

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veve

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Conjugation

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From the ve- stem of vesz +‎ -e with an added -v-.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛvɛ]
  • Hyphenation: ve‧ve
  • Rhymes: -vɛ

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veve

  1. Archaic third-person singular indicative past indefinite form of vesz. For the full paradigm, see the usage template.
    Synonym: (modern form) vett

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vefa, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (to weave). Compare with Danish væve, Swedish väva, Faroese veva, Icelandic vefa.

Verb

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veve (imperative vev, present tense vever, passive veves, simple past veva or vevet or vevde, past participle veva or vevet or vevd, present participle vevende)

  1. to weave (form something by passing strands of material over and under one another)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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veve (present tense vev, past tense vov, supine vove, past participle voven, present participle vevande, imperative vev)

  1. e-infinitive form of veva

Samoan

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Noun

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veve

  1. leaves placed over an oven as insulation
  2. (in the presence of a chief) a pig's liver

Verb

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veve

  1. (of something animate) to be numerous

References

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  • Pratt, George. A Samoan Dictionary. 1862. Page 373.