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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ولد (veled, “mischievous, sly”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
velet (feminine velete)
- clever, crafty, sly, cunning
- Synonyms: i shkathët, dredharak, dhelparak
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “velét,~e”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2124b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “velet”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 499f.
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “velét”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 549a
Further reading
- Meyer, G. (1891) “veľét”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 465
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech veleti, from Proto-Slavic *velěti.
Pronunciation
Verb
velet impf
- to command
Derived terms
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Further reading
- veleti in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- veleti in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- velet in Internetová jazyková příručka
Latin
Verb
vēlet
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of vēlō
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
velet n
- definite singular of vele
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ولد (veled), from Arabic وَلَد (walad).
Pronunciation
Noun
velet (definite accusative veledi, plural veletler)
- (dated or dialectal) boy, kid, child
Declension