veem

From Middle Dutch veme. Cognate with Middle Low German vēme. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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veem n (plural vemen, diminutive veempje n)

1. (archaic) association, organisation, guild
2. (dated, particularly) a company that handles storage of goods
3. (by extension) a place where goods are stored; warehouse

   Synonyms: pakhuis, warenhuis

• The word veem in the sense warehouse is today largely restricted to technical logistic contexts. The word pakhuis is far more common in general parlance.

• → Indonesian: veem

• veem on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

veem

1. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of ver

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch veem (“warehouse”, literally “guild, association”).

veem (plural veem-veem)

1. warehouse

• “veem”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• vêem (pre-1990 spelling)

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• Hyphenation: ve‧em

veem

1. third-person plural present indicative of ver

veem

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1920 in Portugal) of vêm

In Portugal, before 1920 (as made official in the 1911 reform), the third-person plural present indicative of vir was spelled veem. Between 1911 and 1920, a distinction was maintained with vêem, from the verb ver.

In Portugal before 1920, and in Brazil before 1943, the conjugations of vir and ver were often homographs. The 1920 modification to the Orthographic Form of 1911 introduced the form vêm in Portugal, which was later made official in Brazil.

See also teem (from ter) and lêem (from ler).