veem

From Middle Dutch veme. Cognate with Middle Low German vēme. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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veem n (plural vemen, diminutive veempje n)

1. (archaic) association, organisation, guild
2. (dated, particularly) a company that handles storage of goods
3. (by extension) a place where goods are stored; warehouse

   Synonyms: pakhuis, warenhuis

• The word veem in the sense warehouse is today largely restricted to technical logistic contexts. The word pakhuis is far more common in general parlance.

• → Indonesian: veem

• veem on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

veem

1. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of ver

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch veem (“warehouse”, literally “guild, association”).

veem (plural veem-veem)

1. warehouse

• “veem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• vêem (pre-1990 spelling)

• (Alentejo, Algarve) IPA^(key): /ˈveẽj̃/, /ˈveẽ/
• Hyphenation: ve‧em

veem

1. third-person plural present indicative of ver

veem

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of vêm.

In Portugal, between 1911 and 1945, the third-person plural present indicative of vir was spelled veem. This maintained a distinction with vêem, from the verb ver.

In Brazil, before its first spelling reform, the conjugations of vir and ver were often homographs; the 1943 Orthographic form later introduced the spelling vêm. This spelling was also introduced in Portugal with the 1945 Orthographic Agreement.

See also teem (from ter) and lêem (from ler).