# veine
## Estonian
### Noun

veine
* partitive plural of vein

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French vene, from Old French veine, from Latin vēna, of uncertain Proto-Indo-European origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɛn/
* Audio; “une veine”:(file)
* Homophones: vaine, vaines, veinent, veines, vène, vènent, vènes

### Noun

veine f (plural veines)
* (anatomy) vein
* (geology) vein, seam
* (informal) luck
** 1961, Christiane Rochefort, Les petits enfants du siècle, Grasset, page 7:Zut dit mon père c’est pas de veine, à quinze jours on loupe la prime.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* inspiration

#### Derived terms

* avoir de la veine
* dans la même veine
* déveine
* veinard
* veiner

#### Descendants

* → Vietnamese: ven

### Further reading

* “veine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* envie, en vie, envié

## Middle English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvæi̯n(ə)/

### Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna.

#### Noun

veine (plural veines)
* (anatomy) vein (blood vessel)
** 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:Whan that Auerill w$^t$ his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour […]When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made […]

##### Alternative forms

* vein, vene, veyne, vena, vain, vaine, wein, weine, wain, waine, wane

##### Descendants

* English: vein
* Scots: van, vane, vain, vaine

##### References

* “vein(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

From Old French veine, from Latin vēnia, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂; doublet of wynne (“happiness”).

#### Noun

veine (plural veines)
* (Christianity) An act of penitence or supplication involving some form of kneeling or prostration.

##### Descendants

* English: veyne

#### References

* “veine, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

veine (third-person singular simple present veineth, present participle veinende, veinynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle veined)
* Alternative form of waynen (“to transport via wagon”)

### Etymology 4
#### Adjective

veine
* Alternative form of vein (“vain”)

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

veine
* Alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French veine, from Latin vēna.

### Noun

veine f (plural veines)
* (Jersey, anatomy) vein

#### Derived terms

* veine varice (“varicose vein”)

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* vaine, veyne

### Etymology

From Latin vēna.

### Noun

veine oblique singular, f (oblique plural veines, nominative singular veine, nominative plural veines)
* (anatomy) vein

#### Descendants

* Middle French: vene
** French: veine
*** → Vietnamese: ven
* Norman: veine
* → Middle English: veine
** English: vein
** Scots: van, vane, vain, vaine

## Wogeo
### Noun

veine
* woman

### References

* Stephen Adolphe Wurm,New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976): PAN *binay, *babinay woman: the longer forms coming into PN as wahine, is present in Manus as *pihin, "bihin, and in Wogeo as veine, [...]
* Herbert Ian Hogbin, The Leaders and the Led: Social Control in Wogeo, New Guinea (1978)