ve

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Symbol

ve

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Venda.

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).

Noun

ve (plural ves)

The name of the Cyrillic script letter В / в.

Etymology 2

First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender.^[1] In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish."^[2] Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /vi/
Homophones: V, v, vee
Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

ve (third-person singular, nominative case, accusative ver, possessive adjective vis, possessive noun vers, reflexive verself)

(rare, epicene, nonstandard) Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they.
- [1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, reprint edition, New York: Penguin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, pages 425–426:
  And stop calling it 'it': yer got yer one great invention, remember Holmes? The neuter personal pronoun; ve/ver/vis, I am not his, vis/ve/ver, nor am I for her, ver/vis/ve, a pronoun for me, (slopping another tin of water out ready).]
- 1995, Greg Egan, Distress, reprint edition, London: Phoenix, published 1996, →ISBN, page 223:
  Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.
- 1997, Greg Egan, Diaspora, reprint edition, New York: HarperPrism, published 1998, →ISBN, page 52:
  Yatima felt distinctly stretched by the process—but vis symbols were still connected to each other in the same way as before. Ve was still verself.

Synonyms

see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Etymology 3

Pronoun

ve

Pronunciation spelling of we.
- 1872, Charles Camden, “The Travelling Menagerie”, in George Mac Donald, editor, Good Words for the Young, London: Strahan & Co., […], chapter V (A Tiger Hunt in England), page 208, column 1:
  Ve vill go to de Sheafen Farm, and ve vill stay at de Sheafen Farm, is it not?
- 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Yule Ball”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 363:
  But ve have grounds larger even than these – though in vinter, ve have very little daylight, so ve are not enjoying them.
- 2011, Roberta C. M. DeCaprio, chapter 9, in A Rose in Amber, Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:
  “My calculations predict another day or so. Ve vill be docking in Liverpool.”
- 2016, Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis, War, Myths, and Fairy Tales - Page 103:
  In Johnny Canuck, a Nazi guard says: “Look, gentlemen of der turd reich. Ve haf captured Johnny Canuck and all his friends.”

Derived terms

ve haf vays of making you talk

References

[1]
Philologus. “Notes and Queries: An Epicene Personal Pronoun Needed.” The Ladies’ Repository, July 1864, p. 439. Archived here
[2]
Verda One. “Manglish.” Everywoman, 8 May 1970, p. 2.

Anagrams

E.V., EV, Ev, eV, μeV

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *poli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəli, from Proto-Austronesian *bəli.

Verb

ve

to buy

References

Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

Etymology 1

From Old Tosk *vae, from Old Albanian vōe (still at Malagija),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Orel, citing Bopp, Camarda and Çabej, argues the Old Albanian word descends from a borrowing from Latin ōvum.^[2] The PIE etymology was earlier supported by Norbert Jokl.

Alternative forms

vo — Gheg, vø — Shkodër
vö — Arbëresh

Noun

ve f (plural ve, definite veja, definite plural vetë)

egg
Synonym: vezë

Declension

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	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ve	veja	ve	vetë
accusative	ve	vejan	ve	vetë
dative	vejeje	vejas	veve	veve
ablative	vejeje	vejas	vesh	veve

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Hyponyms

ve fërgesë (“fried egg”)
ve peshku (“fish roe”)
ve surbull (“soft-boiled egg”)
ve llukë (“rotten egg”)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *widewā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (compare English widow, Latin vidua).

Alternative forms

vejë

Adjective

i ve

widowed

Noun

ve f (plural va)

widow, widower
Synonyms: vejanë, vejushë

Derived terms

vejan
vejëri
vejëroj
vejme
vejni
vejnoj
vejushë

References

[1]
Martin E. Huld, Basic Albanian Etymologies (Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1984), 125.
[2]
Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ve”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 497

Etymology

Possibly related to Yoruba rè

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vè/

Verb

vè

to go

Derived terms

àvè (“the act of going”)

References

B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)
Boluwaji Oshodi (2011 December) A Reference Grammar of Arigidi, Montem Paperbacks, →ISBN

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbe]

IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈve]
Rhymes: -e

Etymology 1

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Usage notes

In some dialects of Catalan, the sounds associated with the letter b and the letter v are the same: [β]. In order to differentiate the names be and ve in those dialects, the letters are often called be alta (“high B”) and ve baixa (“low V”).

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

ve

third-person singular present indicative of venir

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈvɛ]
Audio: (file)

Preposition

ve

Alternative form of v (“in”)

Usage notes

The more usual form is v, while ve is used before words starting with f, v, w and certain consonant clusters.

Etymology

From Old Norse vei, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /veːˀ/, [ˈʋeːˀ]
Rhymes: -eːˀ

Noun

ve (singular definite veen, plural indefinite veer)

pain
contraction of labour, birth pang

Declension

More information common gender, Singular ...

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ve	veen	veer	veerne
genitive	ves	veens	veers	veernes

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Declension of ve

Noun

ve

water

References

Taber, M. (1993). Toward a better understanding of the indigenous languages of southwestern Maluku. Oceanic Linguistics. 32:2. pp. 389-441. Cited in: "East Masela" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Etymology

Borrowed from German weh, from Proto-Germanic *wai, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (“oh!; woe!; alas!”). Compare Yiddish וויי (vey), Dutch wee, Latin vae, Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí), Spanish guay, Italian guai, dialectal French vé, Welsh gwae, Latvian vai, Persian (vây), Arabic وَيْل (wayl).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ve]
Hyphenation: ve

Audio: (file)

Interjection

ve

alas, woe

Etymology

Ultimately, from Latin vē.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /veː/

Noun

ve n (genitive singular ves, plural ve)

The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Declension

More information n3, singular ...

n3	singular		plural
n3	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ve	veið	ve	veini
accusative	ve	veið	ve	veini
dative	vei	veinum	veum	veunum
genitive	ves	vesins	vea	veanna

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Synonyms

(archaic) vaff, vavv

Noun

v^e (plural v^es)

Abbreviation of veuve.

Verb

ve

inflection of ver:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology

From French ver (“worm”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ve/

Noun

ve

worm

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ve/, /vɛ/

Etymology 1

From Esperanto ve, from German weh. Compare also Latin vae.

Interjection

ve

alas, oh dear
Ve! Me obliviis la furnelo acendite!
Oh dear! I forgot the stove on!

Etymology 2

From v +‎ -e.

Noun

ve (plural ve-i)

The name of the Latin script letter V/v.

Etymology

From Dutch vee.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɛ/, [ˈfɛ]

Noun

vè (plural ve-ve)

The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Synonyms

vi (Standard Malay)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ve/
Rhymes: -e
Hyphenation: ve

Pronoun

ve

Alternative form of vi (“to you”)
Ve lo consiglio ― I recommend it (to you)

Ve ne ne sarei molto grato ― It would be nice of you

Usage notes

Used when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

Romanization

ve

Rōmaji transcription of ゔぇ
Rōmaji transcription of ゑ゙
Rōmaji transcription of ヴェ
Rōmaji transcription of ヹ

Particle

ve

particle used after a verb similar in function to English "to". E.g. "ha ve" = "to winnow"
Relativizer particle

Romanization

ve

Nonstandard spelling of vê̄.

Usage notes

《汉语拼音方案》 (Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) defines a standard pronunciation for each letter in Hanyu Pinyin with Zhuyin. In the case of V, it is defined as ㄪㄝ, using the otherwise-obsolete initial ㄪ (vō /⁠v⁠/). This is one of the only instances of the letter being used in standard Pinyin.
《汉语拼音方案》 (Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) defines a standard pronunciation for each letter in Hanyu Pinyin with Zhuyin. ㄝ (/⁠ɛ⁠/) typically only occurs in syllables with an initial glide (e.g. ㄧㄝ (-ie /⁠i̯ɛ⁠/)), where it is romanized as e. When it occurs in syllables without an initial glide, however, it is romanized as ê in order to distinguish it from ㄜ (-e /⁠ɤ⁠/). Such instances are rare, and are only found in interjections or neologisms.
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Pronoun

ve

Alternative form of we (“we”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ve/
Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

ve

you (formal or plural, reflexive or dative or accusative)

Coordinate terms

More information Number, Person ...

Number	Person	Nominative	Accusative	Dative	Reflexive	Possessive	Prepositional
singular	first-person	io (i')	me			mìo, mìa, mieje, meje	me, méne
	second-person, familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje	te, téne
	second-person, formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	ìsso
	third-person, feminine	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	éssa
plural	first-person	nuje	ce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second-person, plural	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsse	'i, 'e (li, le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro
	third-person, feminine	llòro	'e (le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro

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Etymology 1

From Old Norse vé, from Proto-Germanic *wīhą.

Noun

ve n (definite singular veet, indefinite plural ve, definite plural vea)

(historical, in Norse times) holy place, place of offering

Derived terms

varg i veum

Related terms

Male given names:

Veald
Vebjørn
Vebode
Vebrand
Vee (Vée)
Vefast
Vefrød
Vefus
Vegard
Vegaut
Vegeir
Vegisl, Vegils
Vegjest
Vegrim
Vekjell, Vekjetil
Veleiv
Vemund
Venjot
Veor
Veord
Veorm
Vesete
Vestein
Vetorm
Veulv
Veurd

Female given names:

Vebjørg
Vedis
Veelv
Vefrid
Vefrøya
Vegjerd
Vegunn
Velaug
Veny
Veråd

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai.

Interjection

ve

woe!

Related terms

våla

Etymology 3

From Old Norse vé, from Low German. Compare the interjection above.

Noun

ve m (definite singular veen, indefinite plural vear, definite plural veane)

birth pang
Synonym: (føde)ri
pain, longing
ve og vel ― welfare (literally, “pain and wellness”)

Derived terms

fødselsve

References

“ve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

vee (the letter v, V)

Derived terms

ve dobla

Adverb

ve (Cyrillic spelling ве)

(Kajkavian) now
Synonym: sada

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʋéː/

Pronoun

vẹ̑

you (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)
(formal) you (feminine and neuter singular)

Inflection

More information singular, 1st person ...

singular
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	jàz	tí	—
accusative	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
genitive	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
dative	méni, mi	tébi, ti	sébi, si
locative	méni	tébi	sébi
instrumental	menój, máno	tebój, tábo	sebój, sábo

possessive	mój	tvój	svój
dual
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mídva m, médve/mídve f or n	vídva m, védve/vídve f or n	—
accusative	náju	váju	sébe, se
genitive	náju	váju	sébe, se
dative	náma	váma	sébi, si
locative	náju	váju	sébi
instrumental	náma	váma	sebój, sábo

possessive	nájin	vájin	svój
plural
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mí m, mé f or n	ví m, vé f or n	—
accusative	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
genitive	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
dative	nàm	vàm	sébi, si
locative	nàs	vàs	sébi
instrumental	nàmi	vàmi	sebój, sábo

possessive	nàš	vàš	svój

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Declension of ve (irregular, suppletive)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbe/ [ˈbe]
Rhymes: -e
Syllabification: ve
Homophone: be

Etymology 1

Noun

ve f (plural ves)

The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.
Synonyms: uve, ve corta

Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

Verb

ve

inflection of ver:

Etymology 3

Verb

ve

second-person singular imperative of ir

Usage notes

The voseo imperative of ir is typically replaced with the imperative of andar, that is andá.^[1]

References

[1]
“Spanish from Argentina: That Voseo Thing”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2015 October 9 (last accessed)

Etymology

From Old Swedish ve, from Old Norse vei, væ, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.

Cognate with Danish ve, Icelandic vei, Old Saxon and Middle High German wê, German weh, Dutch wee, Old English wá, English woe, and also Latin vae. The interjection is original in Old Swedish. The noun might have appeared from that interjection or by loan from Middle Low German.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /veː/
Rhymes: -eː
Homophone: V (the letter)

Interjection

ve

woe, pity you!
ve dig!
(please add an English translation of this usage example)

ack och ve!
(please add an English translation of this usage example)

Noun

ve n

woe, misery
ditt väl och ve
your weal and woe, your fortune and misery, (idiomatically) your welfare / well-being

Ve och fasa!
Woe and horror! (Horror of horrors!)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

Declension of ve
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ve	ves
singular	definite	ve	ves
plural	indefinite	ve	ves
plural	definite	ve	ves

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Derived terms

Related terms

väl och ve

References

ve in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
ve in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
ve in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

ev.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ve, the Spanish name of the letter V/v.

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈve/ [ˈvɛ]
- IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /ˈbe/ [ˈbɛ]
Rhymes: -e
Syllabification: ve

Noun

ve (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒ)

(historical) the name of the Latin-script letter V/v, in the Abecedario
Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) vi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ve/

Etymology 1

Noun

ve

The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish و (ve), from Arabic وَ (wa).

Conjunction

ve

and

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [vɛ˧˧] ~ [jɛ˧˧]
Homophone: de

Etymology 1

Attested as ue in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651).

Probably onomatopoeic, from the cry of the cicada.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “do the "cicada" and "tick" senses have a common etymology?”)

Noun

(classifier con) ve • (蟡, 爲, 為) (phonemic reduplicative ve ve)

cicada
Synonym: ve sầu
tick

Derived terms

ve bét
ve chó

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Often considered to be from French verre (“glass (substance); objects made of glass”). It is attested in P.J. Pigneaux's version of the Dictionarium anamitico-latinum (1772). There's also the word ue in đạn ue attested in de Rhodes (1651), glossed in Portuguese as munição, are these related? It did seem to tangle with verre in later period, but was the relationship between the two words genetic or contamination?”

Noun

ve • (䃣, 𡐮)

small bottle or jar
(only in compounds) glass (substance)

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

ve • (𢠿)

(chiefly in compounds) to flirt

Derived terms

ve vãn

[1] [1]
Philologus. “Notes and Queries: An Epicene Personal Pronoun Needed.” The Ladies’ Repository, July 1864, p. 439. Archived here

[2] [2]
Verda One. “Manglish.” Everywoman, 8 May 1970, p. 2.

[3] [1]
Martin E. Huld, Basic Albanian Etymologies (Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1984), 125.

[4] [2]
Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ve”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 497

[5] [1]
“Spanish from Argentina: That Voseo Thing”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2015 October 9 (last accessed)

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[2]

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Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Combined	Disjunctive	Locative	Partitive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m', -mi			me	me	—
	second	—	tu	ti, t', -ti			te	te	—
	third	m	lui	si², s', -si	lo, l', -lo	gli, -gli	glie, se²	lui, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
	third	f	lei, Lei¹	si², s', -si	la, La¹, l', L'¹, -la, -La¹	le³, Le¹, -le³, -Le¹	glie, se²	lei, Lei¹, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c', -ci			ce	noi	—
	second	—	voi, Voi⁴	vi, Vi⁴, v', V'⁴, -vi, -Vi⁴			ve	voi, Voi⁴	—
	third	m	loro, Loro¹	si, s', -si	li, Li¹, -li, -Li¹	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro¹	glie, se	loro, Loro¹, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
	third	f	loro, Loro¹	si, s', -si	le, Le¹, -le, -Le¹	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro¹	glie, se	loro, Loro¹, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
¹	Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
²	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
³	Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language.
⁴	Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).

			singular	dual	plural
1st person		m	jaz	midva	mi
1st person		f or n	jaz	medve, midve	me

2nd person	familiar tikanje	m	ti	vidva	vi
2nd person	familiar tikanje	f or n	ti	vedve, vidve	ve

3rd person		m	on	onadva	oni
		f	ona	onedve, onidve	one
		n	ono	onedve, onidve	ona

Polite forms (not differentiated in dual and plural)					singular
polite vikanje – instead of 2nd person, binds with forms for 2rd person plural masculine					vi, Vi
very polite onikanje – instead of 2nd or 3rd person, binds with forms for 3rd person plural masculine (archaic)					oni
hyper polite onokanje – instead of 2nd person, binds with forms for 3rd person singular neuter (obsolete)					ono
patriarchal onkanje – instead of 2nd person, binds with forms for 3rd person singular masculine (obsolete)					on

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