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Vei . For a derivative of see under, , and.   ,, ‘violet’ (plant), of earlier  , from  vîel, older viôl, , vîole,. Borrowed in the early period from  viola (with v equal to f, as in, , , and ). viola, violetta,  violette; also to  viool,  violet.   ,, ‘kidney-bean,’ only; it is so called because it begins to bloom on St. Vitus's day (June 15). —   ,, ‘St. Vitus's dance’ ( only), chorea sancti Vîti, thus named because the help of St. Vitus was implored.   , ; in its most frequent significations it is derived from ver-,  fir- (far-), which are probably a combination of several other unaccented forms. the unaccented prefixes faír-, fra-, faúr- (see also ), which appeared in  as fir- (far-). faír, fra, and faur appear to correspond respectively to περί, πρό, and παρα, though their meanings do not coincide. pári, ‘round about,’ párâ, ‘away,’ purâ, ‘before,’ prá, ‘before, away.’ — Most of the compounds with ( for-) are based on  fra-, which denoted ‘the opposite, deterioration, change.’   ,, ‘to disconcert, confuse,’ only, from  verbluffen, ‘to stun, dishearten.’ Early history obscure. —   ,, ‘to border, fringe,’ from late brëm, verbrëmen, , ‘border, trimming,’ older  , ‘border, skirts of a wood,’  brim ( brimme).  ,, ‘to condemn, anathematise,’ from the  verdamnen,  firdamnôn; borrowed, like other  terms in the  period, from  damnâre (  damner,  damnare), with the prefix  to give a bad sense to the word. — ,, ‘to digest,’ from the  verdöuwen (verdöun), verdouwen, with the simple forms döuwen, douwen,  douwen (dęwen), firdouwen, ‘to digest’;   verduwen. The assumed þaujan, ‘to digest,’ is probably connected with  ( ‘to dissolve’). — ,, ‘to spoil, destroy, corrupt,’ from  verdërben,  , ‘to come to nought, perish, die,’ with which the corresponding causative  verdęrben, ‘to ruin, kill,’ was con - fused in   *dërban,  *þaírban,  , ‘to perish, die,’ is wanting. The meaning of the words points to a connection with, so that we must assume a double root, Aryan terbh, sterbh (  and  (2) ); in that case neither , with its divergent meaning, nor  can be allied. —  ,, ‘destruction,’ from verdërben, , properly an infinitive used as a  — <section end="Verderben" /> <section begin="verdrießen" /> ,, ‘to grieve, vex, trouble,’ from verdrieȥen,  , ‘to excite anger, produce weariness’; also the   be-, erdrieȥen, from  bi-, irdrioȥan,. usþriutan, ‘to molest, revile,’ þreátian ( to threaten), with â-þreótan, ‘to be disgusted,’  droten, ‘to threaten,’ with verdrieten, ‘to vex,’  þrjóta, ‘to want, fail’ (þrot, ‘want,’ þraut, ‘hard task, trouble.’ The great development of the  verbal root,  þrū̆t, makes it difficult to find undoubted cognates in non-;  trudŭ, ‘pain, trouble,’ truzdą, ‘to torment,’  trûdo, ‘to crowd, push,’ point to an Aryan root trū̆d. — <section end="verdrießen" /> <section begin="Verdruß" /> ',, ‘vexation, annoyance’; in  usually urdruȥ, urdrütze, verdrieȥ. — <section end="Verdruß" /> ', , ‘disconcerted, abashed,’ from  vertutzt, a  of  vertutzen, vertuȥȥen, ‘to be deafened, become silent’; remoter history obscure. See . <section begin="vergällen" /> , , ‘to embitter,’ from  vergellen,  , ‘to make as bitter as gall, embitter’; allied to. — <section end="vergällen" /> , see. — ,, ‘to enclose with trellis-work, assemble (soldiers) by beat of drum,’ from late (LRhen.) vergatern, ‘to assemble.’ Properly a  word;   vergaderen, to which the cognates of  to gather (see ) are connected. — ,, ‘in vain, to no purpose,’ from vergëbene (-gëbenes), ‘gratis, in vain’; allied to vergëben ( firgëban), ‘useless, to no purpose,’  ‘given away,’ a  used as an  — ,, ‘to forget,’ from the  vergëȥȥen,  firgëȥȥan,  ; a West  word;   vergeten,  forgitan,  to forget. Also the  irgëzzan,  ergëȥȥen. The compound verb is the relic of a strong verbal root get, ‘to reach, attain,’ whence to get;   bigitan, ‘to find,  ‘to reach, attain,’ In non-,  prae-hendere, ‘to group,’  χανδάνω (Aryan root ghed,