veja

veja

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of ver:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wējā. Compare vėjas (“wind”), in the sense "swept area," "cleaned space." Related to Latvian veļa (“lawn”).

vejà f (plural vẽjos) stress pattern 4

1. lawn

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “86-87”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 86-87

• Rhymes: -eʒɐ
• Hyphenation: ve‧ja

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese veja. Compare Galician vexa.

• vêja (superseded)

veja

1. inflection of ver:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Probably a borrowing from Old Tupi, compare bijá, pijá (“kind of fish”).

veja f (plural vejas)

1. Mediterranean parrotfish (Sparisoma cretense, a fish of the Atlantic Ocean)

   Synonym: peixe-papagaio

From Proto-Slavic *věja, whence also Old Church Slavonic вѣꙗ (věja, “branch”). Further cognates include Bulgarian вейка (vejka) and ветва (vetva), Russian ветвь (vetvʹ), Slovak vetva. Non-Slavic cognates include Sanskrit वया (vayā́, “branch, twig”) (from Proto-Indo-European *woh₁y-éh₂ (“branch, twig”)), Latin vītis (“vine”), German Weide (“willow”), Old Prussian witwan (“willow”), Persian بید (bid, “willow”).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛ́ːja/

vȇja f

1. branch (woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	vêja
gen. sing.	vêje
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	vêja	vêji	vêje
genitive (rodȋlnik)	vêje	vêj	vêj
dative (dajȃlnik)	vêji	vêjama	vêjam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	vêjo	vêji	vêje
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	vêji	vêjah	vêjah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	vêjo	vêjama	vêjami

• “veja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈbexa/ [ˈbe.xa]
• Rhymes: -exa
• Syllabification: ve‧ja

veja

1. inflection of vejar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative