veke
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Finnish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
veke
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Low German wēke or Middle Dutch weike.
Alternative forms[edit]
- veike (Nynorsk also)
Noun[edit]
veke m (definite singular veken, indefinite plural veker, definite plural vekene)
- a wick (in a candle, lamp or lantern)
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
veke
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
veke f or m (definite singular veka or veken, indefinite plural veker, definite plural vekene)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by uke
References[edit]
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- vika (archaic, Høgnorsk)
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse vika (“week”), from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession”)[1], from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield”).
Noun[edit]
veke f (definite singular veka, indefinite plural veker, definite plural vekene)
See also[edit]
- uke (Bokmål)
References[edit]
- “veke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
veke
- absolute definite natural masculine form of vek.
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- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål adjective forms
- Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders
- Norwegian Bokmål pre-2005 forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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