veg

See also: vég

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɛd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛdʒ

Adjective

veg (not comparable)

Vegetarian.
- 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe‎^[1], Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 120:
  The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.

Derived terms

Noun

veg (countable and uncountable, plural vegs or veges or veg)

(colloquial) vegetable(s).
- 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 167:
  She paused, still clutching her fork, and pushed back a lock of hair with the crook of her wrist. "It'll help if one of you takes charge of the veg. and the other helps with the plates," she said.
- 2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 [2], page 5,
  Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, […]
- 2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory‎^[3], →ISBN, page 185:
  […] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.
- 2007 August 31', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 2:
  Ok, Question 40. Do you get your five fruit and veg?
  Ohh, I mean I certainly try to... I would say, I would say I probably do.
  A day.
  A WHAT??!
fruit and veg ― fruit and vegetables
(chiefly India) vegetarian food.

Usage notes

In colloquial speech this is usually pluralized simply as "veg".
In writing this may or may not be followed by a period to mark it as an abbreviation.

Synonyms

veggie, vegie

Derived terms

Verb

veg (third-person singular simple present vegs or vegges or veges, present participle vegging or veging, simple past and past participle vegged or veged)

(colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest
After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
- 2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood‎^[4], →ISBN, page 7:
  And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.

Alternative forms

vedge

Related terms

veg out

Translations

vegetate

Polish: wegetować (pl) impf
Spanish: vegetar (es)

Etymology 2

Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens.[5], [6]

Noun

veg (plural vegs)

(psychology) A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.

References

“veg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

GeV

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vechten, from Middle Dutch vechten, from Old Dutch fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Verb

veg (present veg, present participle vegtende, past participle geveg)

to fight

Derived terms

aanveg
beveg

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Danish wegh, from Old Norse veikr, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.

Adjective

veg (neuter vegt, plural and definite singular attributive vege)

weak, yielding

Inflection

Inflection of *veg*
	positive	comparative	superlative
indefinite common singular	veg	vegere	vegest²
indefinite neuter singular	vegt	vegere	vegest²
plural	vege	vegere	vegest²
definite attributive¹	vege	vegere	vegeste

¹ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
² The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Derived terms

veghed

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

veg

past of vige

Jamtish

Etymology

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /¹ʋe̞ːɣ/

Noun

veg m

way, road

Declension

Declension of *veg* (strong short a-stem)
masculine	singular		plural
masculine	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	veg	veg'enn	vagar	vagan
dative	veg	veg'a	vagar	vegum
compound-genitive	veg	―	vaga	―
vocative	veg	―	veger, vagar	―

Vocative plural unattested.

Manx

Etymology

From e +‎ beg from Old Irish a becc (“a little, a while; at all”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /veɡ/

Noun

veg m (no plural)

none, nothing, (with negative concord) anything
cha daag eh veg dou
he left nothing for me

as lurg ooilley shen t'ad veg share
and after all that they are no better

my t'ou jeeaghyn fo'n lhiabbee, lhisagh oo jerkal dy gheddyn veg
if you are looking under the bed then you shouldn't expect to find anything
- 1819, Yn Vible Casherick, Galatianee 1:19:
  Agh veg jeh ny ostyllyn elley cha vaik mee, agh Jamys braar y Chiarn.
  But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

References

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Vei

Wikipedia ^no

Alternative forms

vei

Etymology

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

Noun

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural veger, definite plural vegene)

Derived terms

References

“veg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

veg

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ʋeːɡ], [ʋæːɡ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Akin to English way.

Noun

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural vegar, definite plural vegane)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

veg

present of vega
imperative of vega

References

“veg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Noun

veg

accusative singular of vegr

Volapük

Etymology

From German Weg.

Noun

veg (genitive vega, plural vegs)

road, way
- 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: II:
  E bi pinunedoms in drim nemü God ad no gegolön lü ‚Herodes’, ädatävoms ve veg votik lü län oksik.
  But they were given a warning in a dream in the name of God not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way.

Declension

Declension of *veg*
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	veg	vegs
Genitive	vega	vegas
Dative	vege	veges
Accusative	vegi	vegis
Predicative¹	vegu	vegus
Vocative	o veg	o vegs

Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

[1] Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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