veny

See also: věny, vény, and -vény

English

Etymology

Alteration of French venue.

Noun

veny (plural venies)

(fencing) A strike or blow.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 47, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  It is not, as at Fence, where the number of venies [tr. touches] given, gets the victorie: So long as the enemie is on foot, a man is newly to begin.

Anagrams

envy

Finnish

Verb

veny

Indicative present connegative form of venyä.
Second-person singular imperative present form of venyä.
Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of venyä.

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