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Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse vefa, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave”). Compare Icelandic vefa, Norwegian veve, Swedish väva, Danish væve.
Verb
[edit]veva (third person singular past indicative vav, third person plural past indicative vóvu, supine vovið)
- to weave
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of veva (group v-52) | ||
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infinitive | veva | |
supine | vovið | |
participle (a26)1 | vevandi | vovin |
present | past | |
first singular | vevi | vav |
second singular | vevur | vavst |
third singular | vevur | vav |
plural | veva | vóvu |
imperative | ||
singular | vev! | |
plural | vevið! | |
1Only the past participle being declined. |
Franco-Provençal
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]veva
Noun
[edit]veva f (plural veves) (ORB, broad)
References
[edit]- veuve in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- veva in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
Further information
[edit]- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 77: “la vedova” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1382: “veuf, veuve” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vĭdŭa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 432
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]veva n
Verb
[edit]veva
- inflection of veve:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse vefa. Akin to English weave.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]veva (present tense vev, past tense vov, supine vove, past participle voven, present participle vevande, imperative vev)
- to weave (a way of making cloth)
Noun
[edit]veva n
Further reading
[edit]- “veva” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Verb
[edit]veva (present vevar, preterite vevade, supine vevat, imperative veva)
- to turn a crank
- to wave one's arms or the like around
- Stå inte där och veva
- Don't stand there gesticulating
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of veva (weak)
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | veva | vevas | ||
Supine | vevat | vevats | ||
Imperative | veva | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | veven | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | vevar | vevade | vevas | vevades |
Ind. plural1 | veva | vevade | vevas | vevades |
Subjunctive2 | veve | vevade | veves | vevades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | vevande | |||
Past participle | vevad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Noun
[edit]veva c
- (in "i samma veva" and "i den vevan") at around the same time, (often, idomatically) at the same time
- I samma som veva som expeditionen drabbades av malaria bröt krig ut i Europa och gjorde det svårt att leverera förnödenheter
- At the same time that the expedition was struck by malaria, war broke out in Europe, making it difficult to deliver supplies
Usage notes
[edit]"In the same swing of events," intuitively.
Declension
[edit]Declension of veva | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | veva | vevan | — | — |
Genitive | - | - | — | — |
References
[edit]Categories:
- Faroese terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Faroese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese verbs
- Franco-Provençal terms inherited from Latin
- Franco-Provençal terms derived from Latin
- Franco-Provençal non-lemma forms
- Franco-Provençal adjective forms
- Franco-Provençal lemmas
- Franco-Provençal nouns
- Franco-Provençal countable nouns
- Franco-Provençal feminine nouns
- ORB, broad
- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål noun forms
- Norwegian Bokmål verb forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk strong verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk noun forms
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish verbs
- Swedish terms with usage examples
- Swedish weak verbs
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns