different between veel vs veer

English

Etymology 1

Noun

veel (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of veal

Etymology 2

Verb

veel (third-person singular simple present veels, present participle veeling, simple past and past participle veeled)

1. (nonstandard, Britain) feel
   • 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire

     To Veel. v. To feel.

     Veel’d. part. Felt.

Etymology 3

Noun

veel (plural veels)

1. (nonstandard, Britain) field

Quotations

• 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century

  But why do they let ’un stray out of the veels?

• 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire

  Veel. s. A field; a corn land unenclosed.

Derived terms

• veelvare

Anagrams

• EVEL, elev., elve, vele

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• feul (obsolete)
• veul (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch veel, from Middle Dutch vele, from Old Dutch filo, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/

Pronoun

veel

1. (chiefly with negatives or when modified by adverbs) much, a lot

Synonyms

• baie (more common synonym with a mostly complementary distribution)

Determiner

veel

1. (chiefly with negatives or when modified by adverbs) much, many

Synonyms

• baie (more common synonym with a mostly complementary distribution)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve?l/
• Hyphenation: veel
• Rhymes: -e?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vele, from Old Dutch filo, from Proto-Germanic *felu.

Determiner

veel (comparative meer, superlative meest)

1. many, much, a lot of

Usage notes

As a determiner veel typically isn't inflected in informal Dutch. In formal style the inflected form vele may be used, but only for plurals or before (usually uncountable) singular nouns with a definite article:

Inflection

Antonyms

• weinig

Derived terms

Pronoun

veel (comparative meer, superlative het meest or het meeste)

1. much, a lot

Antonyms

• weinig

Derived terms

• veelverdiener
• veelvraat

Descendants

• Afrikaans: veel

Adverb

veel (comparative meer, superlative meest)

1. much
2. often, frequently

Synonyms

• (frequently): vaak

Antonyms

• weinig
• (frequency): zelden

Derived terms

• veelgebruikt

Etymology 2

Verb

veel

1. first-person singular present indicative of velen
2. imperative of velen

Anagrams

• leve, vele

Dutch Low Saxon

Alternative forms

• völle

Etymology

Cognate to German viel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?l/

Adverb

veel

1. much

Adjective

veel

1. much, many

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *veelä, from a Baltic language. Cognate to Lithuanian v?l, Latvian v?l and Finnish vielä.

Adverb

veel

1. yet, still

Anagrams

• elev

Etymology 2

Noun

veel

1. adessive singular of vesi

German Low German

Alternative forms

• v?l
• v?l
• (Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian) v?l, vääl, väl, vel
• (Eastern Westphalian) viel, vill

Etymology

Cognate to German viel.

Adverb

veel

1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) much

Adjective

veel

1. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) much (a lot of) (when used in the singular)

2. (in many dialects, including Low Prussian) many (when used in the plural)

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veelä, borrowed from a Baltic language. Cognates include Finnish vielä and Estonian veel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve?l/

Adverb

veel

1. yet

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[1]

Middle English

Alternative forms

• veele, vele, veale

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??l/, /v?l/

Noun

veel (plural veles)

1. veal (the meat of a calf)
2. A calf (young cow)

Descendants

• English: veal
• Scots: veal, veall, vale

References

• “v?l(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-5.

Old French

Alternative forms

• vedel

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vitellus.

Noun

veel m (oblique plural veeaus or veeax or veiaus or veiax or veels, nominative singular veeaus or veeax or veiaus or veiax or veels, nominative plural veel)

1. calf (young cow or bull)

Descendants

• ? English: veal
• French: veau

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (veel, supplement)
• veel on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?(?)?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 12:

     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

Borrowed from Middle French virer.

Noun

veer (plural veers)

1. 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

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.

   • And as he leads, the following navy veers.

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace

     An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
2. (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).
3. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
4. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
5. (transitive) To turn.

Antonyms

• (of the wind, to shift clockwise): back
• (of the wind, to shift aft): haul forward

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Vere, ever

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch veer.

Noun

veer (plural vere)

1. feather

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve???r/, [??e???]
• Rhymes: -e???r

Noun

veer

1. plural of ve

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve?r/, [v??r]
• Hyphenation: veer
• Rhymes: -e?r

Etymology 1

A contraction of veder, from Middle Dutch vedere, from Old Dutch fethara, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþr?, from Proto-Indo-European *péth?r? ~ pth?én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth?- (“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

veer f (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

1. feather

   Synonym: pluim

2. spring (e.g. metallic helix which resists stress)

Alternative forms

• (feather): veder (dated)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: veer
• ? Indonesian: per (“spring”)

Verb

veer

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

Etymology 2

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

Cognate with German Fähre.

Noun

veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)

1. ferry

Synonyms

• overzet
• pont, veerpont m, veerboot

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: veer

Anagrams

• erve, ever, vere, vree

Dutch Low Saxon

Alternative forms

• vaaier (Gronings)

Etymology

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

Numeral

veer

1. four (4)

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veeri.

Noun

veer (genitive veere, partitive veert)

1. edge

Declension

German Low German

Etymology

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

Numeral

veer

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

Coordinate terms

See also

• Plautdietsch: veea

Jutish

Etymology

From Old Norse vita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ve??]

Verb

veer

1. (Fjolde) to know

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

veer m

1. indefinite plural of ve

Old French

Verb

veer

1. Alternative form of veoir

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vid?re, present active infinitive of vide?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?e?/

Verb

veer

1. to see
   • 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)

     Ay ondas que eu uin ueer / ?e me ?aberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo s? mj

     Oh waves that I came to see / say unto me / Why my lover lingers thus away from me?

Descendants

• Galician: ver
• Portuguese: ver

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• vedär

Etymology

From Old Norse viðra, related to veðr (“weather”).

Verb

veer

1. let wind blow through something

Related terms

• ver