veve

See also: véve and vevé

English

Alternative forms

• vévé, vèvè, vever

Etymology

From Haitian Creole vèvè, from Portuguese viver (“to live”).

Noun

veve (plural veves)

1. (voodoo) any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa [from 20th c.]
   • 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company 2004, p. 69:

     The vever, as a cabbala-like method of invoking the gods, was included as a primary ceremonial device in Rada.

   • 1995, Robert Farris Thompson, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 103:

     The vèvè for Simbi, lord of healing, bristles with all sorts of allusions to the Kongo medicines of God, leaves, horns, water, and stars.

   • 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books 2007, p. 15:

     The indigenous practice of sand painting was preserved in the practice of creating vévés, intricate drawings in cornmeal that were used to call various spirits.

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Adjective

veve

1. bitter

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Hungarian

Etymology

From the ve- stem of vesz +‎ -e with an added -v-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛvɛ]
• Hyphenation: ve‧ve

Verb

veve

1. (archaic) third-person singular indicative past indefinite of vesz. For the full paradigm, see the usage template.

   Synonym: vett

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vefa, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave”). Compare with Danish væve, Swedish väva, Faroese veva, Icelandic vefa.

Verb

veve (imperative vev, present tense vever, passive veves, simple past veva or vevet or vevde, past participle veva or vevet or vevd, present participle vevende)

1. to weave (form something by passing strands of material over and under one another)

Derived terms

• sammenvevd
• veving
• vevstol

 

References

• “veve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

veve (present tense vev, past tense vov, past participle vove, present participle vevande, imperative vev)

1. Alternative form of veva

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Samoan

FWOTD – 4 July 2016

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈve.ve/

Noun

veve

1. leaves placed over an oven as insulation
2. (in the presence of a chief) a pig's liver

Verb

veve

1. (of something animate) to be numerous

References

• Pratt, George. A Samoan Dictionary. 1862. Page 373.