# vé
## Champenois
### Alternative forms

* viau

### Etymology

Inherited from Old French veel, vedel, from Latin vitellus.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /ve/

### Noun

vé m (feminine velle, plural vés)
* (Troyen, Rémois, Langrois) calf

### References

* Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
* Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɛː]

### Noun

vé n (indeclinable)
* The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

### Further reading

* “vé”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “vé”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ve/

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

vé m (plural vés)
* The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

##### Derived terms

* double vé

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

vé m (plural vés)
* calf
    Synonym: veau
** 1881, “A B C D”, in French Nursery Rhymes:La vache a fait le vé; / Le vé s’est ensauvé, / La vache a pleuré; / Le vé est revenu, / La vache a rizu; / Saura té.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Occitan vei!, imperative of veire (“to see”).

#### Interjection

vé!
* (Marseille) look!
** 1995, Jean-Claude Izzo, Total Khéops:J’ai un ami, Toni, enfin un copain. Parce que, vé, on est pas intimes, vous comprenez.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈveː]
* Hyphenation: vé
* Rhymes: -veː

### Noun

vé
* The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

#### Derived terms

* dupla vé

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse vé, from Proto-Germanic *wīhą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vjɛː/
    Rhymes: -ɛː

### Noun

vé n (genitive singular vés, nominative plural vé)
* sanctuary

#### Derived terms

* heilagt vé
* heimilisvé
* helgivé
* vébönd
* véfrétt
* véhelgur

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vʲeː/

### Noun

vé
* The name of the Latin-script letter v/V.

### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
* Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

From French veut (“wants”).

### Verb

vé
* to want

### References

* Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *wīhą (“sacred area, sanctuary”).

#### Noun

vé n (genitive vés)
* (Germanic paganism) sanctuary, holy place (especially an outdoor space whose boundary is marked off by set stones or rope)
* mansion, house

##### Coordinate terms

* hof (“temple; roofed cult site”)
* hǫrgr (“outdoors cult site”)

##### Derived terms

* Véurr (“Thor”, literally “Sanctuary-defender”)
* véband (“sacred band used to mark a vé”)

##### Related terms

* vígja (“to hallow, sanctify”)

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: vé
* Norwegian Nynorsk: ve
* Norwegian Bokmål: ve
* Old Swedish: vī (only in place-names)
** Swedish: vi
* Old Danish: wī (only in place-names)
** Danish: vi
* Old Gutnish: wí
* ⇒ Old Norse: Óðinsvé
** Icelandic: Óðinsvé
** Danish: Odense
*** → English: Odense

#### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vé”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 476; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
* page/476 Internet Archive]
* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

vé n (genitive vés)
* banner, standard
    framm óðu véstandards stormed forth

## Romagnol
### Noun

vé m or f (invariable)
* The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lètra; a, bé, cé, dé, e, ëffe, ge, àcca / àca, i, i lóng, càpa, ëlle, èmme, ènne, o, pé, cu, ërre, ësse, té, u, vé, dópi vé / dópi vu / vu dópi, ics, i gréc / ìpsilon, zéta

## Spanish
### Verb

vé
* (obsolete) second-person singular imperative of ver

## Tarantino
### Verb

vé
* second/third-person singular present indicative of andare

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [vɛ˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [vɛ˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [vɛ˦˥] ~ [jɛ˦˥]

### Noun

(classifier tấm, tờ, chiếc) vé • (派)
* ticket
    vé một lượt ― one-way ticket

#### Usage notes

* The usage of chiếc as the classifier for this noun seems to be more common in Northern Vietnam.

#### Derived terms

* cháy vé
* vé số