veva
Faroese
Etymology
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
veva (third person singular past indicative vav, third person plural past indicative vóvu, supine vovið)
- to weave
Conjugation
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
Etymology
Adjective
veva
Noun
veva f (plural veves) (ORB, broad)
References
- veuve in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- veva in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
Further information
- 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
Alternative forms
Noun
veva n
Verb
veva
- inflection of veve:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse vefa. Akin to English weave.
Pronunciation
Verb
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
veva n
Further reading
- “veva” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
Verb
veva (present vevar, preterite vevade, supine vevat, imperative veva)
- to turn a crank; to wind, to crank
- veva upp hinken ur brunnen
- wind up the bucket from the well
- to wave one's arms or the like around
- Stå inte där och veva
- Don't stand there gesticulating
Conjugation
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
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. |
See also
Noun
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
"In the same swing of events," intuitively.
Declension
Declension of veva | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | veva | vevan | — | — |
Genitive | - | - | — | — |
References
- 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 terms suffixed with -a
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish verbs
- Swedish terms with usage examples
- Swedish weak verbs
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns