veke

• vek
• vekka
• veks

Borrowed from Swedish iväg.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋeke/, [ˈʋe̞k̟e̞]
• Rhymes: -eke
• Syllabification^(key): ve‧ke
• Hyphenation^(key): ve‧ke

veke (not comparable) (colloquial)

1. (of motion) away

   Synonym: pois

2. (locative) away

   Synonyms: poissa, (proscribed) pois

• “veke”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

From Middle Low German wēke or Middle Dutch weike.

• veike (Nynorsk also)

veke m (definite singular veken, indefinite plural veker, definite plural vekene)

1. a wick (in a candle, lamp or lantern)

veke

1. definite singular of vek
2. plural of vek

veke f or m (definite singular veka or veken, indefinite plural veker, definite plural vekene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by uke

• “veke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “veke_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• vika (nonstandard since 1938, now used in Høgnorsk)
• viku, vyku, vekke, vikke (dialectal)
• Viku (Spydeberg dialect, 1780)
• vuku (Trøndersk, Østerdalsmål)

Inherited from Old Norse vika (“week”), from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession”),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield”).

veke f (definite singular veka, indefinite plural veker, definite plural vekene)

1. week

• “veke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “veke”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

veke c

1. a wick (in a candle, oil lamp, or the like)

• ljus (“candle”)

veke

1. definite natural masculine singular of vek

• veke in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• veke in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• veke in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)