veke
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Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]veke (not comparable) (colloquial)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “veke”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04
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- form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by uke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]Etymology
[edit]Inherited 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)
References
[edit]- “veke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]veke c
- a wick (in a candle, oil lamp, or the like)
Declension
[edit]Declension of veke | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | veke | veken | vekar | vekarna |
Genitive | vekes | vekens | vekars | vekarnas |
See also
[edit]- ljus (“candle”)
Adjective
[edit]veke
References
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eke
- Rhymes:Finnish/eke/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish adverbs
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Middle Low German
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- 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 inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish non-lemma forms
- Swedish adjective forms