vei

See also: VEI, véi, veí, and Véi

Äiwoo

Verb

vei

to flash, shine
to lightning

References

Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

vei (inanimate)

obsolete spelling of huēyi

Doura

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

vei

water

References

AVBD
A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)

Finnish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʋei̯/, [ˈʋe̞i̯]
Rhymes: -ei
Syllabification^(key): vei
Hyphenation^(key): vei

Verb

vei

third-person singular past indicative of viedä

Anagrams

vie

Gabadi

Noun

vei

water

Declension

inflection of stem *vei*
	singular	plural
nominative stem + -na/-da	veina	veida
locative + instrumental stem + -nai/-dai	veinai	veidai
alienable possession

References

A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)

Hlai

Etymology

From Proto-Hlai *Cuɾiː (“ape”), from Pre-Hlai *Cu[d/ɖ]iː (Norquest, 2015).

Pronunciation

(Standard Hlai, Baoding) IPA^(key): /vei˥˧/

Noun

vei

ape

Lala (New Guinea)

Noun

vei

water

References

A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)

Mekeo

Noun

vei

water

References

A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Danish vej.

Alternative forms

veg

Noun

vei m (definite singular veien, indefinite plural veier, definite plural veiene)

road; way; street; path
bane vei - pave the way

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

vei

imperative of veie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

vei

(non-standard since 2012) definite plural of ve
misspelling of veg

Old Occitan

Verb

vei

first-person singular present indicative of vezer

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [vej]

Verb

(tu) vei (modal auxiliary, second-person singular form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

(you) will
dacă mă duc acuma vei veni cu mine?
if I leave now, will you come with me?

Taushiro

Noun

vei

water
river

References

Pueblos del Perú, 2006, page 161: “agua vei”
Neftalí Alicea Ortiz, editor (1975), “Vocabulario taushiro”, in Datos Etno-Lingüísticos‎^[1], volume 22 (PDF), Lima: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 75

Veps

Etymology

From veda +‎ -i.

Noun

vei

exporter

Inflection

Inflection of vei (inflection type 7/pedai)
nominative sing.	vei
genitive sing.	vejan
partitive sing.	vejad
partitive plur.	vejid
	singular	plural
nominative	vei	vejad
accusative	vejan	vejad
genitive	vejan	vejiden
partitive	vejad	vejid
essive-instructive	vejan	vejin
translative	vejaks	vejikš

inessive	vejas	vejiš
elative	vejaspäi	vejišpäi
illative	vejaha	vejihe

adessive	vejal	vejil
ablative	vejalpäi	vejilpäi
allative	vejale	vejile

abessive	vejata	vejita
comitative	vejanke	vejidenke
prolative	vejadme	vejidme

approximative I	vejanno	vejidenno
approximative II	vejannoks	vejidennoks
egressive	vejannopäi	vejidennopäi

terminative I	vejahasai	vejihesai
terminative II	vejalesai	vejilesai
terminative III	vejassai	—

additive I	vejahapäi	vejihepäi
additive II	vejalepäi	vejilepäi

References

Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “экспортёр”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika