voevat

Voevat is a neologistic verb used in fictional languages and world-building discussions to mean “to wage war” or “to initiate military action.” In this sense, voevat denotes an act carried out by a state, organization, or collective against an opponent, typically involving mobilization, planning, and armed engagement.

The term is a constructed word with no attested cognates in natural languages. In conlang practice it is described as arising from a war-related root combined with an action-denoting suffix, illustrating how designers encode conflict-related meaning morphologically.

In sample grammars, voevat is treated as a regular verb that takes subject agreement and tense or aspect markers. Examples might render “the state voevats against the invaders” or “they will voevat next spring,” depending on the language’s syntax and morphology.

As a tool in worldbuilding, voevat helps explore how a language encodes military action and how cultural attitudes toward war can shape verb formation and usage.

See also: conlang, worldbuilding, linguistic morphology, neologism.