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vaen

vaen

See also: väen and vän

Estonian

Noun

vaen ‎(genitive vaenu, partitive vaenu)

  1. hostility, enmity

Declension

Etymology

From Old East Slavic воина ‎(voina, “war”). Compare Russian война ‎(vojna, “war”). Cognate with Finnish vaino. Alternatively of Baltic origin; compare Latvian vaina ‎(“fault, guilt”). The word appears in older literature often with the meaning of "war".

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