# veg
## English
### Etymology 1

Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɛd͡ʒ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛd͡ʒ

#### Adjective

veg (not comparable)
* Vegetarian.
** 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe‎, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 120:The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.

##### Derived terms

* nonveg
* veg-curious

#### Noun

veg (countable and uncountable, plural vegs or veges or veg)
* (colloquial) vegetable(s).
** 2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 , page 5,
    Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, […]
** 2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory‎, →ISBN, page 185:[…] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.
** 2007 August 31', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 2:
    Ok, Question 40. Do you get your five fruit and veg? Ohh, I mean I certainly try to... I would say, I would say I probably do. A day. A WHAT??!
    fruit and veg ― fruit and vegetables
* (chiefly India) vegetarian food.

##### Usage notes

* In colloquial speech this is usually pluralized simply as "veg".
* In writing this may or may not be followed by a period to mark it as an abbreviation.

##### Synonyms

* veggie, vegie

##### Derived terms

* meat and two veg
* veg box
* veg-head

#### Verb

veg (third-person singular simple present vegs or vegges or veges, present participle vegging or veging, simple past and past participle vegged or veged)
* (colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest
    After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
** 2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood‎, →ISBN, page 7:And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.

##### Alternative forms

* vedge

##### Related terms

* veg out

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens.,

#### Noun

veg (plural vegs)
* (psychology) A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.

### References

* “veg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* GeV

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch vechten, from Middle Dutch vechten, from Old Dutch fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

veg (present veg, present participle vegtende, past participle geveg)
* to fight

#### Derived terms

* aanveg
* beveg

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse veikr, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.

#### Adjective

veg
* weak, yielding

##### Inflection

$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

veg
* past of vige

## Jamtish
### Etymology

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /¹ʋe̞ːɣ/

### Noun

veg m
* way, road

#### Declension
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* vei

### Etymology

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

### Noun

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural veger, definite plural vegene)
* road
* way
* direction

#### Derived terms

* fylkesveg
* gangveg
* grusveg
* midtvegs
* sporveg
* vegkant
* vegsperring

### See also

* gate
* sti

### References

* “veg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ʋeːɡ], [ʋæːɡ]

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Akin to English way.

#### Noun

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural vegar, definite plural vegane)
* road
* way
* direction
    bane veg - pave the way

##### Derived terms

* allfarveg
* fjerdingsveg
* fylkesveg
* gangveg
* grusveg
* hovudveg
* midtvegs
* Mjølkevegen
* skåveg
* sporveg
* vegkant
* vegsperring

#### See also

* gate
* stig

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

veg
* present of vega
* imperative of vega

### References

* “veg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Norse
### Noun

veg
* accusative singular of vegr

## Volapük
### Etymology

From German Weg.

### Noun

veg (nominative plural vegs)
* road, way
** 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: II:E bi pinunedoms in drim nemü God ad no gegolön lü ‚Herodes’, ädatävoms ve veg votik lü län oksik.But they were given a warning in a dream in the name of God not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way.

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only