different between vein vs gein

English

Alternative forms

• wayn (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin v?na (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See v?na for more. Displaced native edre, from ?dre (whence edder).

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?n, IPA^(key): /ve?n/
• Homophones: vain, vane
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

vein (plural veins)

1. (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
2. (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
3. (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
4. (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
5. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
   1. (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
6. (figuratively) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
   • 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue

     He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.

7. (figuratively) A style, tendency, or quality.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth

     certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins

   • 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands

     Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.

8. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
   • I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins

Related terms

• in the same vein
• veined
• veinless
• veinlet
• veinlike
• veinstone
• veiny
• venation
• venous
• blue-veined cheese
• deep vein thrombosis
• pulmonary vein
• varicose vein

Translations

Verb

vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)

1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
   • 1853, Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, Volume II, Chapter 18, p. 204,^[1]

     […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]

   • 1920, Melville Davisson Post, The Sleuth of St. James’s Square, Chapter 14,^[2]

     “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […] ”

See also

• artery
• blood vessel
• capillary
• circulatory system
• phlebitis
• vena cava

Further reading

• vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vein in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vein in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vein at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Vien, Vine, nevi, vine

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin v?num. Doublet of viin.

Noun

vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)

1. wine

Declension

Derived terms

• punane vein
• valge vein

Finnish

Verb

vein

1. first-person singular indicative past of viedä

Anagrams

• evin, vien

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French vin, from Latin v?num, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh?nom.

Noun

vein m (plural veins)

1. wine

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from veina (“to wail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vei?n/
• Rhymes: -ei?n

Noun

vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)

1. wail, lament

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French vain, from Latin v?nus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.

Adjective

vein

1. vain (worthless, useless)
2. vain (futile, ineffectual)
3. unfounded, false, misleading
4. (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible

Alternative forms

• veine, veigne, veiin, veiine, ven, vain, vaine, wein, wain, waine

Descendants

• English: vain
• Scots: vane, vain, vaine

Noun

vein (uncountable)

1. something that is worthless or futile
2. idleness, triviality

Alternative forms

• weine; wan, wane (Northern); feinne (Southwestern)

Descendants

• English: vain

References

• “vein, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “vein, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

vein (plural veines)

1. Alternative form of veine (“vein”)

Etymology 3

Adverb

vein

1. Alternative form of fain

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ?????? (g?inos, “of earth”) from ?? (gê, “earth”).

Noun

gein (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) humin

Anagrams

• Gien, NigE, Nige

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ??? (kheyn, “grace, charm”), from Hebrew ????.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?n/
• Hyphenation: gein
• Rhymes: -?i?n
• Homophone: gijn

Noun

gein m (uncountable, diminutive geintje n)

1. (informal) fun, pleasure, joke

Derived terms

• geinig
• geinponem
• ongein

Anagrams

• enig, neig

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ei?n/, [??e?i?n]
• Rhymes: -ein
• Syllabification: gein

Noun

gein

1. Instructive plural form of gee.

Anagrams

• Inge

Icelandic

Verb

gein

1. first-person singular past indicative of gína
2. third-person singular past indicative of gína

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gegn.

Adjective

gein

1. Alternative form of gayn (“direct, fast, good, helpful”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gagn.

Noun

gein

1. Alternative form of gayn (“gain, reward, advantage”)

Etymology 3

From Old English ?e?n.

Preposition

gein

1. Alternative form of gain (“against”)

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *genan, from Proto-Indo-European *?enh?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???en?/

Noun

gein n (genitive gene, nominative plural gene)

1. verbal noun of gainithir
2. birth
3. (Christianity) the Nativity
4. someone who was born

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gein”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

References

Volapük

Noun

gein (nominative plural geins)

1. gin

Declension