veli

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia)

veli

1. inflection of velar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -eli
• Hyphenation: ve‧li

veli (present velas, past velis, future velos, conditional velus, volitive velu)

1. (intransitive) to sail

Conjugation of veli

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		velas		velis		velos
active participle		velanta	velantaj	velinta	velintaj	velonta	velontaj
	acc.	velantan	velantajn	velintan	velintajn	velontan	velontajn
nominal active participle		velanto	velantoj	velinto	velintoj	velonto	velontoj
	acc.	velanton	velantojn	velinton	velintojn	velonton	velontojn
adverbial active participle		velante		velinte		velonte

infinitive		veli						imperative		velu						conditional		velus

From Proto-Finnic *velji. Cognate with Finnish veli.

veli (genitive velle or velje, partitive velle or velje)

1. (uncommon) brother

   Synonyms: vend, vennas

veli

1. indefinite dative singular of vel

From Proto-Finnic *velji, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swelijô.^[1] Cognate with Northern Sami viellja, Karelian velj, Estonian veli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeli/,

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eli
• Hyphenation^(key): ve‧li

veli

1. brother (male sibling)
2. (rare) brother (ally or fellow)
   1. (in particular) Term of address used by World War II veterans among each other.
3. (Helsinki slang) bro

The Helsinki slang usage "bro" is often associated with immigrants.

Inflection of this word is somewhat irregular. The stem in inflected forms is velj(e)-.

• “veli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

• Elvi, ilve, live

From Proto-Finnic *velji. Cognates include Finnish veli and Estonian veli.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋeli/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋelʲi/,
• Rhymes: -eli, -elʲi
• Hyphenation: ve‧li

veli

1. Synonym of veljä (“brother”)
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 20:

     Ivo ono Levon veli.

     Ivo is Levo's brother.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 68:

     Veli ono kolhozan pravlenjan clena.

     Brother is a member of the board of the kolkhoz.

All forms except the nominative singular show the stem veljä- and are shared with veljä.

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “вѣли”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 699
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 651

• IPA^(key): /ˈve.li/
• Rhymes: -eli
• Hyphenation: vé‧li

veli m

1. plural of velo

veli

1. inflection of velare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• Levi, levi, live, vile

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.liː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.li/,

vēlī n

1. genitive singular of vēlum

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛː.lɪ/

veli

1. plural of velu

Borrowed from English veil.

• Audio (Kenya):

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veli class IX (plural veli class X)

1. veil (something to hide an object)

From Proto-Finnic *velji.

veli (genitive vele or velle, partitive veljä or velle)

1. brother

This noun needs an inflection-table template.