veve
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Haitian Creole vèvè, from Portuguese viver (“to live”).
Noun
[edit]veve (plural veves)
- (voodoo) Any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa. [from 20th c.]
- 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 69:
- The vever, as a cabbala-like method of invoking the gods, was included as a primary ceremonial device in Rada.
- 1995, Robert Farris Thompson, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 103:
- The vèvè for Simbi, lord of healing, bristles with all sorts of allusions to the Kongo medicines of God, leaves, horns, water, and stars.
- 2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 15:
- The indigenous practice of sand painting was preserved in the practice of creating vévés, intricate drawings in cornmeal that were used to call various spirits.
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Guaraní
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Verb
[edit]veve
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Conjugation of veve
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the ve- stem of vesz + -e with an added -v-.
Pronunciation
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[edit]veve
- Archaic third-person singular indicative past indefinite form of vesz. For the full paradigm, see the usage template.
- Synonym: (modern form) vett
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse vefa, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave”). Compare with Danish væve, Swedish väva, Faroese veva, Icelandic vefa.
Verb
[edit]veve (imperative vev, present tense vever, passive veves, simple past veva or vevet or vevde, past participle veva or vevet or vevd, present participle vevende)
- to weave (form something by passing strands of material over and under one another)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “veve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Verb
[edit]veve (present tense vev, past tense vov, supine vove, past participle voven, present participle vevande, imperative vev)
- e-infinitive form of veva
Samoan
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[edit]Noun
[edit]veve
- leaves placed over an oven as insulation
- (in the presence of a chief) a pig's liver
Verb
[edit]veve
- (of something animate) to be numerous
References
[edit]- Pratt, George. A Samoan Dictionary. 1862. Page 373.
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