veine

veine

See also: veiné

Estonian

Noun

veine

1. partitive plural of vein

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French

Etymology

From Middle French vene, from Old French veine, from Latin vēna, of uncertain Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛn/

• Audio (une veine)

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Noun

veine f (plural veines)

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

Derived terms

• avoir de la veine
• dans la même veine
• déveine
• veinard
• veiner

 

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: ven

Further reading

• “veine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• envie, en vie, envié

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Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛi̯n(ə)/

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna.

Noun

veine (plural veines)

1. (anatomy) vein (blood vessel)
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 2, recto:

     Whan that Auerill w^t his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour […]

     When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made […]

Alternative forms

• vein, vene, veyne, vena, vain, vaine, wein, weine, wain, waine, wane

Descendants

• English: vein
• Scots: van, vane, vain, vaine

References

• “vein(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old French veine, from Latin vēnia, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂; doublet of wynne (“happiness”).

Noun

veine (plural veines)

1. (Christianity) An act of penitence or supplication involving some form of kneeling or prostration.

Descendants

• English: veyne

References

• “veine, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Verb

veine (third-person singular simple present veineth, present participle veinende, veinynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle veined)

1. Alternative form of waynen (“to transport via wagon”)

Adjective

veine

1. Alternative form of vein (“vain”)

Noun

veine

1. Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French veine, from Latin vēna.

Noun

veine f (plural veines)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) vein

Derived terms

• veine varice (“varicose vein”)

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Old French

Alternative forms

• vaine, veyne

Etymology

From Latin vēna.

Noun

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

1. (anatomy) vein

Descendants

• Middle French: vene
  • French: veine
    • → Vietnamese: ven
• Norman: veine
• → Middle English: veine
  • English: vein
  • Scots: van, vane, vain, vaine

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Wogeo

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)