veg

See also: vég

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛd͡ʒ

Adjective

veg (not comparable)

1. Vegetarian.
   • 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe‎^[1], 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)

1. (colloquial) vegetable(s).
   • 2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 [2], 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^[3], →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

2. (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)

1. (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^[4], →ISBN, page 7:

     And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.

Alternative forms

• vedge

Related terms

• veg out

Translations

vegetate

• Spanish: vegetar (es)

Etymology 2

Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens.[5], [6]

Noun

veg (plural vegs)

1. (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:

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Verb

veg (present veg, present participle vegtende, past participle geveg)

1. to fight

Derived terms

• aanveg
• beveg

Danish

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

veg

1. weak, yielding

Inflection

Inflection of veg

	positive	comparative	superlative
indefinite common singular	veg	vegere	vegest2
indefinite neuter singular	vegt	vegere	vegest2
plural	vege	vegere	vegest2
definite attributive1	vege	vegere	vegeste

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

1. past of vige

Jamtish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹ʋe̞ːɣ/

Noun

veg m

1. way, road

Declension

  Declension of veg (strong short a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	veg	veg'enn	vagar	vagan
dative	veg	veg'a	vagar	vegum
compound-genitive	veg	―	vaga	―
vocative	veg	―	veger, vagar	―

Vocative plural unattested.

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)

1. road
2. way
3. direction

Derived terms

• fylkesveg
• gangveg
• grusveg
• midtvegs
• sporveg
• vegkant
• vegsperring

 

See also

• gate
• sti

References

• “veg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [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)

1. road
2. way
3. 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

1. present of vega
2. imperative of vega

References

• “veg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Noun

veg

1. accusative singular of vegr

Volapük

Etymology

From German Weg.

Noun

veg (nominative plural vegs)

1. 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

declension of veg

	singular	plural
nominative	veg	vegs
genitive	vega	vegas
dative	vege	veges
accusative	vegi	vegis
vocative 1	o veg!	o vegs!
predicative 2	vegu	vegus

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