veke

Finnish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish iväg.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʋeke/, [ˈʋe̞k̟e̞]
  • Rhymes: -eke
  • Syllabification(key): ve‧ke

Adverb

veke (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, lative) away
    Synonym: pois
  2. (colloquial, stative) away
    Synonyms: poissa, (proscribed) pois

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German wēke or Middle Dutch weike.

Alternative forms

Noun

veke m (definite singular veken, indefinite plural veker, definite plural vekene)

  1. a wick (in a candle, lamp or lantern)

Adjective

veke

  1. definite singular of vek
  2. plural of vek

Noun

veke f or m (definite singular veka or veken, indefinite plural veker, definite plural vekene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by uke

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms
  • vika (archaic, Høgnorsk)

Etymology

From Old Norse vika (“week”), from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession”)[1], from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield”).

Noun

veke f (definite singular veka, indefinite plural veker, definite plural vekene)

  1. week

See also

References
  1. (in Norwegian (Høgnorsk))

Swedish

Noun

veke c

  1. a wick (in a candle, oil lamp, or the like)

Declension
Declension of veke 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative veke veken vekar vekarna
Genitive vekes vekens vekars vekarnas

See also

Adjective

veke

  1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of vek.

References
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