veva

From Old Norse vefa, from Proto-Germanic *webaną, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave”). Compare Icelandic vefa, Norwegian veve, Swedish väva, Danish væve.

veva (third person singular past indicative vav, third person plural past indicative vóvu, supine vovið)

1. to weave

Inherited from Latin vidua.

veva

1. feminine singular of vevo

veva f (plural veves) (ORB, broad)

1. widow

   Coordinate term: vevo m

• veuve in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• veva in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 77: “la vedova” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] – map 1382 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “vĭdŭa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 432

• vevene (of noun)
• vevet (of verb)
• vevde (of verb, simple past)
• vevd (of verb, past participle)

veva n

1. definite plural of vev

veva

1. inflection of veve:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• veve (of verb, e infinitive)
• våvå (of verb, dialectal)

From Old Norse vefa. Akin to English weave.

• (of verb): IPA^(key): /²ʋeːʋɑ/
• (of noun): IPA^(key): /ˈʋeːʋɑ/

veva (present tense vev, past tense vov, supine vove, past participle voven, present participle vevande, imperative vev)

1. to weave (a way of making cloth)

veva n

1. definite plural of vev

• vevnad

• “veva” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

vev (“crank”) +‎ -a

veva (present vevar, preterite vevade, supine vevat, imperative veva)

1. to turn a crank; to wind, to crank

   veva upp hinken ur brunnen

   wind up the bucket from the well

2. to wave one's arms or the like around

   Stå inte där och veva

   Don't stand there gesticulating

• hissa

veva c

1. (in "i samma veva" and "i den vevan") at around the same time, (often, idomatically) at the same time

   I samma som veva som expeditionen drabbades av malaria bröt krig ut i Europa och gjorde det svårt att leverera förnödenheter

   At the same time that the expedition was struck by malaria, war broke out in Europe, making it difficult to deliver supplies

"In the same swing of events," intuitively.

• “veva”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “veva”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “veva”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)