veo
Pronunciation: /ˈbeo/
“veo” is a Galician word. Its 9 meanings in English:
noun
- peg under the bed of the cart used for tying and securing the load
- dowel, pin (a piece of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts)
- lever, crank
- crosspiece
- part of the vertical axis of a water mill
- axis of the reel
- plaited frame used to protect a haystack
- each one of the twigs used to plait that frame
- veil
In Galician
Etymology
Probably derived or akin to Late Latin vibia (“crosspiece”) which was perhaps borrowed from Gaulish; if just akin, then from a local Celtic *vibio-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y- (“to twist, to twine”). Cognate with Portuguese veio.
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