Other forms: vying, vied, vies
To vie is to compete eagerly for something. Vie for attention, vie with each other, they vie for the same place.
It takes for the prize and with the rival: vie with each other for the same job. It is chiefly a journalistic word and belongs to headlines and reports rather than to speech. The present participle is spelled vying, dropping the e. Note that vie is one of a small group of two-letter-plus-e verbs — tie, die, lie — that all form their participles the same way and confuse everybody once.
1verbvieTo compete eagerly for something.
“Several cities are vying to host the next Olympic Games.”
vie is a competing.
Middle English envien comes from Old French envier, to challenge in a game, from Latin invitare, to invite. English cut the front off, so vie and invite are the same word with different amounts of it.
Latin
invītō
Old French
envier
Middle English
envien
English, today
vie
envy, from Middle English envien, from Old French envier, from Latin invītō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA