vél

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word vél. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word vél, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say vél in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word vél you have here. The definition of the word vél will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofvél, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: vel, -vel, vēl, vėl, veļ, and vęl

Franco-Provençal

Noun

vél m

  1. calf (young cattle)

Hungarian

Etymology

Might be akin to a Permic word (*wele-), compare Komi-Permyak велавны (velavny) and Udmurt валаны (valany).

Pronunciation

Verb

vél

  1. (transitive, archaic or formal) To opine, think, believe, guess.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

  • vél in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse vél, from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (craft, deceit), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (to turn, bend); cognate with English wile.

Pronunciation

Noun

vél f (genitive singular vélar, nominative plural vélar)

  1. machine
  2. motor, engine

Declension

Derived terms

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Norse *ᚹᛖᛚᚨ (*wela), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (craft, deceit), from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (to turn, bend). Cognate with Old English wīl.

Noun

vél f (genitive vélar)

  1. an artifice, a craft, a device
  2. an engine, a machine
  3. a trick, a device, a fraud; a wile

Descendants

  • Icelandic: vél