vea

See also: Vea, vẽa, and ve'a

Ese

Noun

vea

1. sun
2. day
3. time

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese vẽa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin vēna. Cognate with Portuguese veia and Spanish vena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.a̝/

Noun

vea f (plural veas)

1. (anatomy) vein
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:

     Et moy rregeo tãgeo o corno que pero que era de marfil que o fendeu cõ o bafo, et al quebrantouselle as veas do pescoço et os nerueos

     And very strongly he blew the horn, but since it was made of ivory he broke it with the puff, and also he broke the veins of the neck and the nerves

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias porque se deuen cauidar de fazer en taes lugares talladuras nen queimaduras a nehua gisa

     and the aforementioned powders must be used in the [horse's] parts with nerves and entangled with veins and arteries, because one must refrain from cutting and burning those place in any way

2. (geology) vein
3. vein (a stripe or streak of a different colour or composition)

Derived terms

• vea da ouriña

Related terms

• Vieiro

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vea”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG

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Old Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin vela, plural of vēlum (“sail of a ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg (“to weave a web”).

Alternative forms

• vela

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβe.a/

Noun

vea f

1. (nautical) sail
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 5 (facsimile):

     baixaron a uea

     (they) lowered the sail

Descendants

• Galician: vela
• Portuguese: vela

Etymology 2

Noun

vea f

1. Alternative form of vẽa

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Spanish

Verb

vea

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of ver.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of ver.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of ver.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of ver.

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

Derived from ,

Verb

1. To jump from tree to tree.

   maṇ jer bönna dell vea

   The pine marten is good at jumping between the trees.

2. To get firewood.

   vea stuøṇ

   to get firewood (lit. for the house)

Synonyms

• (jump between trees):