vee

See also: vêe

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /viː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

vee (plural vees)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.
  2. Something with the shape of the letter V.
    Migrating geese fly in a vee.
    • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf
      One of [the men] took up both spaces on the pink sofa, while the other two drew up chairs from a nearby table and squeezed into them. The armrests were forced out into a tired vee, to the accompaniment of an uneasy creaking sound.
  3. (cricket) The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played
  4. A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.

Derived terms

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vêe, from Old Dutch fē, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /veː/
  • Rhymes: -eː
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Noun

vee n (uncountable)

  1. (collective) livestock, cattle

Derived terms

Estonian

Etymology 1

Noun

vee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Etymology 2

Noun

vee

  1. Genitive singular form of vesi.

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋeː/
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun

vee

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Declension

Inflection of vee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative vee veet
genitive veen veiden
veitten
partitive veetä veitä
illative veehen veihin
singular plural
nominative vee veet
accusative nom. vee veet
gen. veen
genitive veen veiden
veitten
partitive veetä veitä
inessive veessä veissä
elative veestä veistä
illative veehen veihin
adessive veellä veillä
ablative veeltä veiltä
allative veelle veille
essive veenä veinä
translative veeksi veiksi
instructive — vein
abessive veettä veittä
comitative — veineen

Compounds

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch fē, from Proto-Germanic *fehu, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock”).

Noun

vêe f, n

  1. livestock (collectively)
  2. animal of livestock

Inflection

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Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Dutch: vee
  • Limburgish: vieë, vieëch

Further reading

  • “vee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “vee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Võro

Noun

vee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

Inflection

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Derived terms

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