veine

See also: veiné

French

Etymology

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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Noun

veine f (plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein
2. (geology) vein, seam
3. (informal) luck

Derived terms

• déveine
• veinard
• veiner

Anagrams

• envie, en vie, envié

Descendants

• → Romanian: venă
• → Vietnamese: ven

Further reading

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

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna.

Noun

veine (plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein (blood vessel)
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 3-4.

     And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

     Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

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

Old French. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

Etymology 5

Noun

veine (plural veines)

1. Alternative form of vine (“vine”)

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French veine, from Latin vēna.

Noun

veine f (plural veines)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) vein

Derived terms

• veine varice (“varicose vein”)

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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

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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)