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Estonian
Noun
veine
- partitive plural of vein
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French vene, from Old French veine, from Latin vēna, of uncertain Proto-Indo-European origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
veine f (plural veines)
- (anatomy) vein
- (geology) vein, seam
- (informal) luck
- inspiration
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Middle English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna.
Noun
veine (plural veines)
- (anatomy) vein (blood vessel)
1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:Whan that Auerill wt his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour […]- When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made
Alternative forms
- vein, vene, veyne, vena, vain, vaine, wein, weine, wain, waine, wane
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Etymology 2
From Old French veine, from Latin vēnia, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂; doublet of wynne (“happiness”).
Noun
veine (plural veines)
- (Christianity) An act of penitence or supplication involving some form of kneeling or prostration.
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Etymology 3
Verb
veine (third-person singular simple present veineth, present participle veinende, veinynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle veined)
- Alternative form of waynen (“to transport via wagon”)
Etymology 4
Adjective
veine
- Alternative form of vein (“vain”)
Etymology 5
Noun
veine
- Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)
Norman
Etymology
From Old French veine, from Latin vēna.
Noun
veine f (plural veines)
- (Jersey, anatomy) vein
Derived terms
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin vēna.
Noun
veine oblique singular, f (oblique plural veines, nominative singular veine, nominative plural veines)
- (anatomy) vein
Descendants
Wogeo
Noun
veine
- woman
References
- Stephen Adolphe Wurm,New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976): PAN *binay, *babinay woman: the longer forms coming into PN as wahine, is present in Manus as *pihin, "bihin, and in Wogeo as veine,
- Herbert Ian Hogbin, The Leaders and the Led: Social Control in Wogeo, New Guinea (1978)