# veho
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *weɣō, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to ride”) (present stem from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti, perfect stem either from Proto-Indo-European *wḗǵʰst or a later formation of the same type). Cognate with Arcadocypriot Greek ϝέχω (wékhō), Sanskrit वहति (vahati), Persian وز (vaz), Old English wegan.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯e.hoː/, [ˈu̯e(ɦ)oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈve.o/, [ˈvɛːo]
* The length of the vowel in the perfect stem vē̆x- is uncertain per Bennett 1907, Buck 1913 and Sihler 1995. De Vaan 2008, Weiss 2009 and Vine 2017 mark it as long (representing a lengthened ablaut grade of the root). As the use of the suffix -s- to form perfects remained productive into Latin, the Latin perfect form could in theory be an independent formation rather than going back to a common ancestor of Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. In the PIE stage, Ringe reconstructs this type of aorist as having a long vowel in the singular but a short vowel in the plural (e.g. *wḗǵʰst vs. *wéǵʰsn̥d).

### Verb

vehō (present infinitive vehere, perfect active vē̆xī, supine vectum); third conjugation
* to carry, bear, convey, transport
    Synonyms: ferō, portō, trahō, agō, vectō, dūcō, gerō, efferō, dēdūcō, prōdūcō, addūcō, trādūcō
* (passive voice) to ride; to be borne

#### Usage notes

* May be used to mean carried by a person, riding a horse, ferried by ship, and many other means of conveyance. Uses ablative of means.

#### Derived terms

* advehō
* convehō
* ēvehō
* invehō
* prōvehō
* subvehō
* trānsvehō
* vectis
* vectō
* vector
* vectuarius
* vectūra
* vehiculum

#### Related terms

* vectīgal

#### Descendants

* → Ido: vehar

### References

* ↑ Charles E. Bennett (1907) “Hidden Quantity”, in The Latin Language – a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, page 72
* ↑ Buck, Carl D. (1913) “Hidden Quantities again”, in The Classical Review, volume 27, number 4, page 124
* 1 2 Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 526, pages 582-583
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vehō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 658
* ↑ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin‎, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, § I E, page 412
* ↑ Brent Vine (2017) “48. The morphology of Italic”, in Jared Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, volume 2, →DOI
* ↑ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 13

### Further reading

* “veho”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “veho”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* veho in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to drive: curru vehi, in rheda (Mil. 21. 55) to ride: equo vehi