vej

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • (South Tosk): venj
  • (Arvanitic, Arbëresh): jenj, ienj

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *webnja, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to weave”).[1] Cognate with Sanskrit उनब्द्धि (unábddhi, “to bind, compress”), Old High German weban (“to weave”), Tocharian B wāp- (“to weave”).

Verb

vej (first-person singular past tense vejta, participle vejtur)

  1. (North Tosk, Middle and East Gheg) to weave

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • vejkë

References
  1. Vladimir Orel, A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 498.

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vaj/, [vɑjˀ]
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Rhymes: -ajˀ

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vegr (“way”), from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

Noun

vej c (singular definite vejen, plural indefinite veje)

  1. road (strip of land made suitable for travel, the path or route one takes)
  2. way
  3. route
Declension
Declension of vej
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vej vejen veje vejene
genitive vejs vejens vejes vejenes
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See veje (“to weigh”)

Verb

vej

  1. imperative of veje

References
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