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veer

See also: Veer and véër

English edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).

Verb edit

veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)

  2. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Middle French virer.

Noun edit

veer (plural veers)

  2. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
    • 1917, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society:
      […] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.
Translations edit
change of direction - of the wind

Verb edit

veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)

  2. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
    The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
    • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      And as he leads, the following navy veers.
    • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace:
      We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
    • 1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:
      In recent years, the attitude of the railway authorities towards large-scale visits to works and sheds on the whole, has, happily, veered round from suspicion, and even point-blank opposition, to one of co-operation and ready welcome.
    • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.
    • 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, pages 38, 39:
      As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.
      [page 39] It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).
    • 2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      As for the legions of paintings, they veer between the bland and bizarre.
  3. (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).[1]
    • 1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library
      It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense.
  4. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.[1]
  5. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
  6. (transitive) To turn.
Antonyms edit
  • (antonym(s) of "of the wind, to shift clockwise"): back
  • (antonym(s) of "of the wind, to shift aft"): haul forward
Translations edit

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bowditch 2002

Anagrams edit

Afrikaans edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch veer.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

veer (plural vere)

  1. feather

Danish edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

veer

  1. plural of ve

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

A contraction of veder, from Middle Dutch vedere, from Old Dutch fethara, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). The sense "spring" is derived from the ability of feathers to resume their shape when bent.

Cognate with Low German Fedder, German Feder, West Frisian fear, English feather, Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder.

Noun edit

veer f (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

  1. a feather, plume
    Synonym: pluim
  2. a mechanical spring (e.g. metallic helix which resists stress)
  3. a twisted leaf, notably of a fern
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Afrikaans: veer
  • → Caribbean Javanese: pir
  • → Indonesian: per (“spring”)

Verb edit

veer

  1. inflection of veren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Dutch vere, from Old Dutch feri, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną.

Cognate with German Fähre.

Noun edit

veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

  1. ferry
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Afrikaans: veer
  • → Sranan Tongo: fer
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: fer
    • → Caribbean Javanese: fir, pir

Anagrams edit

Dutch Low Saxon edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Low German, from Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier.

Numeral edit

veer

  1. four (4)

Estonian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *veeri.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

veer (genitive veere, partitive veert)

  1. edge

Declension edit

Declension of veer (ÕS type 13/suur, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative veer veered
accusative nom.
gen. veere
genitive veerte
partitive veert veeri
illative veerde
veeresse 		veertesse
veerisse
inessive veeres veertes
veeris
elative veerest veertest
veerist
allative veerele veertele
veerile
adessive veerel veertel
veeril
ablative veerelt veertelt
veerilt
translative veereks veerteks
veeriks
terminative veereni veerteni
essive veerena veertena
abessive veereta veerteta
comitative veerega veertega

Further reading edit

  • “veer”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “veer”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • veer in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

German Low German edit

Low German cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : veer
    Ordinal : veert

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier, English four.

Numeral edit

veer

  1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian and Münsterland) four (4)

Coordinate terms edit

Cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
—0 —1 —2 —3 —4 —5 —6 —7 —8 —9
0— null een twee/twei dree/drei veer fiev/fief söß/söss sæben/söven acht negen
1— teihn/tein/tien ölven/elf twölf dörteihn veerteihn föffteihn sössteihn söventeihn achtteihn negenteihn
2— twintig eenuntwintig tweeuntwintig dreeuntwintig veeruntwintig fiefuntwintig sössuntwintig sövenuntwintig achtuntwintig negenuntwintig
3— dörtig eenundörtig tweeundörtig dreeundörtig veerundörtig fiefundörtig sössundörtig sövenundörtig achtundörtig negenundörtig
4— veertig eenunveertig tweeunveertig dreeunveertig veerunveertig fiefunveertig sössunveertig sövenunveertig achtunveertig negenunveertig
5— föfftig eenunföfftig tweeunföfftig dreeunföfftig veerunföfftig fiefunföfftig sössunföfftig sövenunföfftig achtunföfftig negenunföfftig
6— sösstig eenunsösstig tweeunsösstig dreeunsösstig veerunsösstig fiefunsösstig sössunsösstig sövenunsösstig achtunsösstig negenunsösstig
7— söventig eenunsöventig tweeunsöventig dreeunsöventig veerunsöventig fiefunsöventig sössunsöventig sövenunsöventig achtunsöventig negenunsöventig
8— achtig
tachentig		 eenunachtig
eenuntachentig		 tweeunachtig
tweeuntachentig		 dreeunachtig
dreeuntachentig		 veerunachtig
veeruntachentig		 fiefunachtig
fiefuntachentig		 sössunachtig
sössuntachentig		 sövenunachtig
sövenuntachentig		 achtunachtig
achtuntachentig		 negenunachtig
negenuntachentig
9— negentig eenunnegentig tweeunnegentig dreeunnegentig veerunnegentig fiefunnegentig sössunnegentig sövenunnegentig achtunnegentig negenunnegentig
Cardinal numbers from 100 onward

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See also edit

Jutish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse vita.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

veer

  1. (Fjolde) to know

References edit

  • “veer” in Anders Bjerrum and Marie Bjerrum (1974), Ordbog over Fjoldemålet, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.

Limburgish edit

Etymology edit

From earlier vēr, from Middle Dutch vier, from Old Dutch *fier, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

veer (Eupen)

  1. (cardinal number) four

Middle English edit

Noun edit

veer

  1. Alternative form of firre

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Noun edit

veer m

  1. indefinite plural of ve

Old French edit

Verb edit

veer

  1. Alternative form of veoir

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin vidēre, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

veer

  1. to see

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of veer (irregular)
infinitive simple veer, ver
compound infinitive of haver or tẽer + past participle
gerund simple veendo, vendo
compound gerund of haver or tẽer + past participle
past participle1 singular plural
masculine veudo, viudo, visto veudos*, viudos*, vistos
feminine veuda, viuda, vista veudas*, viudas*, vistas
present participle *veente, *vente *veentes, ventes
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative eu tu el~ele
ela
vossa mercee 		nos
nos outros
nos outras 		vos
vos outros
vos outras 		eles
elas
present vejo vêes, vês vêe, vê veemos, vemos veedes, vedes vêen
imperfect *veia, viia, via veias, viias, vias *veia, *viia, via veiamos, viiamos, viamos *veiades, *viiades, *viades veian, viian, vian
preterite *veí[1], vii, vi viste viu, vio vimos vistes viron
pluperfect vira viras vira viramos virades viran
future veerei, verei veerás, verás veerá, verá veeremos, veremos veeredes, veredes veerán, verán
conditional veeria, veria veerias, verias veeria, veria veeriamos, veriamos veeriades, veriades veerian, verian
compound
tenses1 		present perfect present of haver or tẽer past participle
present imperfect imperfect of haver or tẽer past participle
past anterior preterite of haver or tẽer past participle
pluperfect simple pluperfect of haver or tẽer past participle
future perfect future of haver or tẽer past participle
conditional perfect conditional of haver or tẽer past participle
subjunctive eu tu el~ele
ela
vossa mercee 		nos
nos outros
nos outras 		vos
vos outros
vos outras 		eles
elas
present veja vejas veja vejamos vejades vejan
preterite visse visses visse víssemos víssedes vissen
future vir vires vir virmos virdes viren
compound
tenses1 		present perfect present subjunctive of haver or tẽer past participle
pluperfect preterite subjunctive of haver or tẽer past participle
future perfect future subjunctive of haver or tẽer past participle
imperative — tu vossa mercee nos
nos outros
nos outras 		vos
vos outros
vos outras 		—
affirmative — *vei, *vêe, vê *veja vejamos veede, vede —
negative — *vejas *veja *vejamos *vejades —
personal infinitive eu tu el~ele
ela
vossa mercee 		nos
nos outros
nos outras 		vos
vos outros
vos outras 		eles
elas
veer, ver veeres, veres veer, ver veermos, vermos veerdes, verdes veeren, veren
  1. ^ JOSÉ NUNES, Joaquim (1956). Compêndio de gramática histórica portuguesa (fonética e morfologia): 5 ed. Lisboa: Clássica Editora. p 333. →ISBN

Descendants edit

Spanish edit

Verb edit

veer (first-person singular present veo, first-person singular preterite veí, past participle veído)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ver

Further reading edit

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