vesa
See also: Vesa, VESA, vēsa, and vēsā
Finnish
(index ve)
Etymology
Related to Ludian veza.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -esɑ
- IPA(key): [ˈʋesɑ]
- Hyphenation: ve‧sa
- Rhymes: -ɑ
Noun
vesa
- A new shoot or sprout of a plant, especially a new branch of a tree or the new growth at the tip of a branch.
- A young tree.
- A scion (descendant).
- (informal) A child, kid.
Declension
| Inflection of vesa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | vesa | vesat | |
| genitive | vesan | vesojen | |
| partitive | vesaa | vesoja | |
| illative | vesaan | vesoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | vesa | vesat | |
| accusative | nom. | vesa | vesat |
| gen. | vesan | ||
| genitive | vesan | vesojen vesainrare | |
| partitive | vesaa | vesoja | |
| inessive | vesassa | vesoissa | |
| elative | vesasta | vesoista | |
| illative | vesaan | vesoihin | |
| adessive | vesalla | vesoilla | |
| ablative | vesalta | vesoilta | |
| allative | vesalle | vesoille | |
| essive | vesana | vesoina | |
| translative | vesaksi | vesoiksi | |
| instructive | — | vesoin | |
| abessive | vesatta | vesoitta | |
| comitative | — | vesoineen | |
Synonyms
- verso
Derived terms
Derived terms
- Vesa
- vesaikko
- vesoa
- vesuri
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wesaną. Evolved to younger variant vera.
Verb
vesa
- Archaic form of vera.
References
- vesa in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press