venven
Maltese
| Root |
|---|
| v-n-v-n |
| 2 terms |
Etymology
Inherited from chiefly dialectal Arabic وَنْوَن (wanwan), reduplication of وَنّ (wann), itself probably from classical أَنَّ (ʾanna).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɛn.vɛn/
Verb
venven (imperfect jvenven, verbal noun tvenvin)
- to whirl, howl, bluster (of wind)
References
- Borg, Alexander (2021) Rewriting Dialectal Arabic Prehistory. The Ancient Egyptian Lexical Evidence (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 105), Leiden: Brill, published 2021, →ISBN, page 361 seq.