Definition of "ve"

And stop calling it 'it': yer got yer one great invention, remember Holmes? The neuter personal pronoun; ve/ver/vis, I am not his, vis/ve/ver, nor am I for her, ver/vis/ve, a pronoun for me, (slopping another tin of water out ready).]

[1984, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, reprint edition, New York: Penguin Books, published 1986, pages 425–426

Ve held up vis right hand; I reached down and took it, and began to haul ver up; ve shook vis head impatiently.

1995, Greg Egan, Distress, reprint edition, London: Phoenix, published 1996, page 223

Yatima felt distinctly stretched by the process—but vis symbols were still connected to each other in the same way as before. Ve was still verself.

1997, Greg Egan, Diaspora, reprint edition, New York: HarperPrism, published 1998, page 52

Ve vill go to de Sheafen Farm, and ve vill stay at de Sheafen Farm, is it not?

1872, Charles Camden, “The Travelling Menagerie”, in George Mac Donald, editor, Good Words for the Young, London: Strahan & Co., […], chapter V (A Tiger Hunt in England), page 208, column 1

“My calculations predict another day or so. Ve vill be docking in Liverpool.”

2011, Roberta C. M. DeCaprio, chapter 9, in A Rose in Amber, Wild Rose Press

In Johnny Canuck, a Nazi guard says: “Look, gentlemen of der turd reich. Ve haf captured Johnny Canuck and all his friends.”

2016, Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis, War, Myths, and Fairy Tales - Page 103