vete

See also: veté, vête, vetë, and větě

Albanian

Etymology

Originally from *wem suffixed with te, from Proto-Albanian *wadmi, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ-. Also cognate to English wade, Old Armenian գամ (gam, to come), Latin vadō (to go, walk).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvete/

Verb

vete (aorist vajta, participle vajtur)

  1. (Tosk, Arbëresh) to go

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vete”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 502

Further reading

  • vete”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vete, from Old Dutch *faitha, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈveː.tə/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ve‧te

Noun

vete f (plural vetes or veten, diminutive vetetje n)

  1. feud

Derived terms

Estonian

Noun

vete

  1. genitive plural of vesi

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse viti.

Alternative forms

Noun

vete m (definite singular veten, indefinite plural vetar, definite plural vetane)

  1. a beacon
  2. a hilltop where a beacon stands or has stood
Derived terms
  • jonsokvete
  • krigsvete
  • olsokvete
  • syftesokvete
  • vetefut
  • vetehus
  • vetemann
  • vetesleg
  • vetestove
  • vetevakt
  • vetevarde

Verb

vete (present tense veit, past tense visste, past participle visst, passive infinitive vetast, present participle vetande, imperative vet)

  1. Alternative form of vita

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvɛ.t͡ʃi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvɛ.te/
 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɛtɨ
  • Hyphenation: ve‧te

Verb

vete

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbete/ [ˈbe.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ete
  • Syllabification: ve‧te

Verb

vete

  1. second-person singular imperative of ir combined with te
  2. inflection of ver:
    1. second-person singular imperative combined with te
    2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with te
  3. inflection of vetar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hveiti, from Proto-Germanic *hwaitijaz, from *hwītaz (white).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²veːtɛ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -²eːtɛ

Noun

vete n

  1. wheat
Declension
Declension of vete 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative vete vetet
Genitive vetes vetets
Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (in certain phrases) /vɛtɛ/, /²veːtɛ/

Verb

vete

  1. (dated) subjunctive of veta
Derived terms

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