veve

== English == === Alternative forms === vévé, vèvè, vever === Etymology === From Haitian Creole vèvè, from Portuguese viver (“to live”). === Noun === 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.] 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. == Ewe == === Adjective === veve bitter == Hungarian == === Etymology === From the ve- stem of vesz +‎ -e with an added -v-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈvɛvɛ] Hyphenation: ve‧ve Rhymes: -vɛ === Verb === veve archaic form of vett, third-person singular indicative past indefinite of vesz Synonym: (modern form) vett == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === 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 === 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 ==== === References === “veve” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Verb === veve (present tense vev, past tense vov, supine vove, past participle voven, present participle vevande, imperative vev) e-infinitive form of veva == Paraguayan Guarani == === Etymology === Compare Old Tupi bebé. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʋeˈʋe/ Rhymes: -e === Noun === veve flight === Verb === veve to fly ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “veve”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 114, column 1 == Samoan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈve.ve/ === Noun === veve leaves placed over an oven as insulation (in the presence of a chief) a pig's liver === Verb === veve (of something animate) to be numerous === References === George Pratt (1861), Samoan dictionary: English and Samoan and Samoan and English with a short grammar of the Samoan dialect, Matautu, Samoa: London Missionary Society Press, page 373 Milner, G.B. (1993), Samoan Dictionary, Auckland: Polynesian Press, →ISBN, page 316