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Äiwoo
Verb
vei
- to flash, shine
- to lightning
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Classical Nahuatl
Noun
vei (inanimate)
- Obsolete spelling of huēyi.
Doura
Noun
vei
- water
References
- AVBD
- A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)
Finnish
Pronunciation
Verb
vei
- third-person singular past indicative of viedä
Anagrams
Gabadi
Noun
vei
- water
References
- A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)
Hlai
Etymology
From Proto-Hlai *Cuɾiː (“ape”), from Pre-Hlai *Cu[d/ɖ]iː (Norquest, 2015).
Pronunciation
Noun
vei
- ape
Lala (New Guinea)
Noun
vei
- water
References
- A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)
Mekeo
Noun
vei
- water
References
- A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Danish vej.
Noun
vei m (definite singular veien, indefinite plural veier, definite plural veiene)
- road; way; street; path
- bane vei - pave the way
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
vei
- imperative of veie
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
vei
- (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of ve
- misspelling of veg.
Old Occitan
Verb
vei
- first-person singular present indicative of vezer
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
(tu) vei (modal auxiliary, second-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)
- (you) will
- dacă mă duc acuma vei veni cu mine?
- if I leave now, will you come with me?
Taushiro
Noun
vei
- water
- river
References
- Pueblos del Perú, 2006, page 161: “agua vei”
- Neftalí Alicea Ortiz, editor (1975), “Vocabulario taushiro”, in Datos Etno-Lingüísticos, volume 22 (PDF), Lima: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 75
Veps
Etymology
From veda + -i.
Noun
vei
- exporter
Inflection
References
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “экспортёр”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika