veine

Etymology

From Old French veine, from Latin vēna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛn/

• Audio (une veine)

  (file)

Noun

veine f (plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein
2. (geology) vein, seam
3. (informal) luck

Anagrams

• envie, en vie, envié

Descendants

• → Romanian: venă
• → Vietnamese: ven

Further reading

• “veine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Old French veine, from Latin vēna.

Noun

veine f (plural veines)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) vein

Alternative forms

• vaine, veyne

Etymology

From Latin vēna.

Noun

veine f (oblique plural veines, nominative singular veine, nominative plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein

Noun

veine

1. woman

References

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm,New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976): PAN *binay, *babinay woman: the longer forms coming into PN as wahine, is present in Manus as *pihin, "bihin, and in Wogeo as veine, [...]
• Herbert Ian Hogbin, The Leaders and the Led: Social Control in Wogeo, New Guinea (1978)