vien

vien

1. first-person singular present indicative of viedä

• evin, vein

• IPA^(key): /ˈvjɛn/, /ˈvjen/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛn, -en
• Hyphenation: vièn, vién

vien

1. Apocopic form of viene
   • Traditional song

     La Befana vien di notte con le scarpe tutte rotte.

     The Befana comes at night with her broken shoes.

• nevi

Cognate with Lithuanian víen (“only”).

vien

1. only
2. merely

From víenas (“one”), with apocope.^[1] Cognate with Latvian vien (“only”); for a similar formation from the same Proto-Indo-European root, see English only.

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víen

1. only, just

vien

1. Apocopic form of viene

In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ll/, /r/, and /z/, a final /-e/ was frequently elided, as in pid, vien, val, quier, faz, versus the modern forms of pide, viene, vale, quiere, and hace (in modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: buen, gran, san, derived from bueno, grande, and santo).

vien

1. wind