veva

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vefa, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (to weave). Compare Icelandic vefa, Norwegian veve, Swedish väva, Danish væve.

Verb

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veva (third person singular past indicative vav, third person plural past indicative vóvu, supine vovið)

  1. to weave

Conjugation

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Conjugation of veva (group v-52)
infinitive veva
supine vovið
participle (a26)1 vevandi vovin
present past
first singular vevi vav
second singular vevur vavst
third singular vevur vav
plural veva vóvu
imperative
singular vev!
plural vevið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin vidua.

Adjective

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veva

  1. feminine singular of vevo

Noun

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veva f (plural veves) (ORB, broad)

  1. widow
    Coordinate term: vevo m

References

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  • veuve in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • veva in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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veva n

  1. definite plural of vev

Verb

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veva

  1. inflection of veve:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vefa. Akin to English weave.

Pronunciation

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  • (of verb): IPA(key): /²ʋeːʋɑ/
  • (of noun): IPA(key): /ˈʋeːʋɑ/

Verb

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veva (present tense vev, past tense vov, supine vove, past participle voven, present participle vevande, imperative vev)

  1. to weave (a way of making cloth)

Noun

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veva n

  1. definite plural of vev

Further reading

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Swedish

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Etymology

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vev (crank) +‎ -a

Verb

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veva (present vevar, preterite vevade, supine vevat, imperative veva)

  1. to turn a crank; to wind, to crank
    veva upp hinken ur brunnen
    wind up the bucket from the well
  2. to wave one's arms or the like around
    Stå inte där och veva
    Don't stand there gesticulating

Conjugation

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See also

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Noun

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veva c

  1. (in "i samma veva" and "i den vevan") at around the same time, (often, idomatically) at the same time
    I samma som veva som expeditionen drabbades av malaria bröt krig ut i Europa och gjorde det svårt att leverera förnödenheter
    At the same time that the expedition was struck by malaria, war broke out in Europe, making it difficult to deliver supplies

Usage notes

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"In the same swing of events," intuitively.

Declension

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References

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