vei

vei

1. to flash, shine
2. to lightning

• 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.

vei (inanimate)

1. obsolete spelling of huēyi

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vei

1. water

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

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

vei

1. third-person singular past indicative of viedä

• vie

vei

1. water

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

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

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

vei

1. ape

vei

1. water

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

vei

1. water

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

From Danish vej.

• veg

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

1. road; way; street; path

   bane vei - pave the way

vei

1. imperative of veie

vei

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

vei

1. first-person singular present indicative of vezer

• IPA^(key): [vej]

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

1. (you) will

   dacă mă duc acuma vei veni cu mine?

   if I leave now, will you come with me?

vei

1. water
2. river

• 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

From veda +‎ -i.

vei

1. exporter

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