• pei,pey

• IPA^(key):/peɪ/

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  • Rhymes:-eɪ

FromHebrewפֵּא(pê), fromProto-Semitic*pay-(“mouth”).Doublet ofpi.

pe

1. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician,Aramaic,Hebrewפ,Syriacܦ, and others;Arabic has the analogfaa).

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

•  Pe (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pe (pluralpes)

1. The name of theCyrillic script letterП /п.

• E&P,EP,ep.,ep

pe

1. pig

• IPA^(key):[pe̞]

pe (Kana spellingペ)

1. (only in compounds)thing,article

   arawan ―seven

   arawanpe ―seventhings

   wen ―bad

   wenpe ―badthing

• (apocopic suffixing form)-p

pe (Kana spellingペ)

1. water, especially in reference to awater body
2. liquid
3. juice

• pehe

• pet(“river”)

• wakka(“drinkable water”)

• pê

• IPA^(key):[pe]

• FromProto-Albanian*petja, fromProto-Indo-European*petino-, from*pet-(“to spread out, to extend”) (compareEnglishfathom). Alternatively fromLatinpannus(“cloth, rag, garment”); cf.Greekπανί(paní).^[1]
• FromProto-Albanian*pena-, fromProto-Indo-European*(s)penh₁-(“to draw”).^[2]

pe m (pluralpenj,definiteperi,definite pluralpenjtë)

1. thread

• pejzë

Fromprej.(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

pe

1. Dialectal form ofprej

FromSãotomensepe(“father”), fromPortuguesepai(“father”).

pe

1. father

• John H. McWhorter (2005)Defining Creole (in Annobonese)

pe

1. (Litovska)encliticreflexive oftu,jou,joj,tumē, andjonē

• IPA^(key):/pe/,[pe̞]

pe inan

1. The name of theLatin-script letterP/p.

• (Latin-script letter names)a,be,ze,de,e,efe,ge,hatxe,i,jota,ka,ele,eme,ene,eñe,o,pe,ku,erre,ese,te,u,uve,uve bikoitz,ixa,i greko,zeta

pe

1. or

pe (interrogative adjective)

1. which,what

• Rhymes:-e

pe f (pluralpes)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterP/p.
2. theHebrew letterפ (final formף)

pe

1. three

• IPA^(key):/ˈpe/
• Rhymes:-e
• Syllabification:pe

FromOld Galician-Portuguesepee, fromLatinpedem.

pe m (pluralpes)

1. foot

FromOld Galician-Portuguesepez, fromLatinpicem.

pe f (uncountable)

1. pitch,tar

Probablyborrowed fromSpanishpez.

• peci(Lagarteiru,Mañegu)

pe m (pluralpecis)

1. (Valverdeñu)fish

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021)Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[2], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published2022,→ISBN

pe n (genitive singularpes, pluralpe)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterP/p.

• (Latin-script letter names)bókstavur;a /fyrra a,á,be,de,edd,e,eff,ge,há,i /fyrra i,í /fyrra í,jodd,ká,ell,emm,enn,o,ó,pe,err,ess,te,u,ú,ve,seinna i,seinna í,seinna a,ø

Abbreviation ofperjantai.

Asperjantai.

pe

1. Abbreviation ofperjantai(“Friday”).

FromBiblical Hebrewפֵּא(pê).

• IPA^(key):/ˈpe(ː)/,[ˈpe̞(ː)]
• Rhymes:-e
• Hyphenation^(key):pe

pe

1. pe(seventeenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

pe

1. that(near addressee)

FromPortuguesepé.

pe

1. foot

FromPortugueseperna.

pe

1. leg

FromPortuguesepau.

pe

1. tree

Fromp +‎-e.

• IPA^(key):/pe/,/pɛ/

pe (pluralpe-i)

1. The name of theLatin script letterP/p.

• Latin script letter names:literi:a ·be ·ce ·che ·de ·e ·fe ·ge ·he ·i ·je ·ke ·le ·me ·ne ·o ·pe ·que ·re ·se ·she ·te ·u ·ve ·we ·xe ·ye ·ze ^[edit]

pe

1. Thehiragana syllableぺ(pe) or thekatakana syllableペ(pe) inHepburn romanization.

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*paʀih, fromProto-Austronesian*paʀiS.

pé (Javanese scriptꦥꦺ)

1. ray(marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paRiS”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈpeː/,[ˈpeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈpe/,[ˈpɛː]

pē f (indeclinable)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterP/p.

• (Latin-script letter names)littera;ā,bē,cē,dē,ē,ef,gē,hā /*acca,ī,kā,el,em,en,ō,pē,kū,er,es,tē,ū,ix /īx /ex,ȳ /ī graeca /ȳpsīlon,zēta

• “pe”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pe inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Arthur E. Gordon,The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 ofUniversity of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

FromLatinper, fromProto-Indo-European*peri, derived from the root*per-(“to go over”).

• IPA^(key):/pe/

pe

1. for
2. to
3. through
4. inoron
5. by
6. with
7. as

pe + article	Combined form
pe +o	pe-o
pe +a	pe-a
pe +i	pe-i
pe +e	pe-e

pe

1. and

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg,Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

pe

1. Used to indicatepossession, similar to English's.

   Kitape mama ―My mother

   Nganape pingsil ―Your pencil

   Adampe oto ―Adam's car

pe

1. Nonstandard spelling ofpē.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofpê̄.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Contraction ofape, fromFrenchaprès. CompareHaitian Creoleap.

• IPA^(key):/pe/

pe (medial formpe)

1. (auxiliary)Used to indicatepresent progressive tense or thecontinuous tense in general.

• ti pe

pe

1. liver

• Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch,Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 411

pe

1. to,for(indicates adativeobject)
2. indicates acausativeobject

   Ajapoukambojapexevy peha'ipe.

   I hadmy mother make me bread.

pe

1. biznaga,barrel cactus.

pe

1. Alternative form ofpo

FromLatinper.

• IPA^(key):/pe/,
• (Naples)IPA^(key):/pə/

pe

1. for

FromOld Tupipe.

• IPA^(key):[pe]

• Hyphenation:pe
• Rhymes:-e

pe

1. (second-class) second-person plural personal pronoun (you,your)

   Pe akanhemu peikú nhaãsépe kirá peikú.

   You are scared becauseyou are fat.

   Aintá uputari upitápe irũmu.

   They want to stay withyou.

   Pe manha uwiké uka pisasú upé.

   Your mother enters the new house.

   • 2021, Marcel Twardowsky Ávila,Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, page588:

     Te pe resarái masuí peyuri!

     Do not forget where you came from!

• As a second-class pronoun,pe is used as the subject of a sentence when its verb is a second-class one (those verbs are sometimes referred to as adjectives). The personal pronounpe is also used when governed by any postposition with the exception ofarama andsupé. Finally,pe is used as a possessive pronoun as well.

• AVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021)Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, page 588
• NAVARRO, Eduardo de Almeida (2016)Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica, 2nd edition,→ISBN, pages 11 and 107

pe f (pluralpes)

1. pee(the letter p, P)

FromLatinpedem, accusative ofpes.Gallo-Romance cognate withOld Frenchpié.

pe m (oblique pluralpes,nominative singularpes,nominative pluralpe)

1. foot (anatomy)

• Occitan:pè

• IPA^(key):/pɛ/
• Rhymes:-ɛ

pe (2nd class,2nd person plural,dativepeẽme /peẽmo,1st class equivalentpeẽ)

1. (with 2nd or 3rd person object)you

   Coordinate term:(with 1st person object)peîepé

2. (with 2nd or 3rd person subject)objective ofpeẽ

   Coordinate term:(with 1st person subject)opo-

3. your

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pe”, inDicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global,→ISBN,page375

FromProto-Katuic*pɛɛ, fromProto-Mon-Khmer*piʔ.

• IPA^(key):[pɛː]

pe

1. three

pe

1. Abbreviation ofpeyyāla.

• pă —Muntenia, informal
• pi —Moldavia (region)
• pre —archaic

Inherited fromLatinper, with meaning influenced bysuper.

• IPA^(key):/pe/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-e

pe (+accusative)

1. on

   cartea estepe masă

   The book ison the table.

2. on (some time during the day of)

   A plecat spre Europa acum o săptămână, mai exact,pe zece mai.

   He left for Europe a week ago, that is,on the tenth of May.

3. (no lexical meaning) used to indicate direct object in some cases

   O așteptpe mama.

   I'm waitingon/for mom.

4. through an opening

   a îi ieși (cuiva)pe gură

   (of words) to comeout (one’s) mouth

   a săripe geam/fereastră ―to jumpout the window

5. (with spatialprepositions oradverbs)approximately,thereabouts

   L-am văzut prima oarăpe undevape aici.

   I first saw it somewherearound here.

   Hotelul epe lângă gară.

   The hotel issomewhere near the station.

Pe takes the accusative case of nouns and is used as the marker for the direct object when said object is:

• a proper noun; the name of a person or animal
• a common noun referring to a specific person, generally known to both the speaker and listener
• a common noun acting as a metaphor for a person
• a common noun in a construction in which the subject and the direct object are the same noun and they precede the predicate

Pe is not used when the direct object is:

• a common noun designating inanimate objects or animals
• a common noun referring to an unspecified person

• da jos
• pe jos
• peste
• pentru
• pre-

• pe inDEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• pei(Sursilvan)
• pè(Puter,Vallader)

FromLatinpēs, pedem(“foot”), fromProto-Indo-European*pṓds.

pe m (pluralpesorpeis)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun,Sutsilvan,Surmiran,anatomy)foot

InRumantsch Grischun andSutsilvan, the plural ispes. InSurmiran, however, it ispeis.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpe/[ˈpe]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-e
• Syllabification:pe

pe f (pluralpes)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterP/p.

• “pe”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

pe

1. (interrogative)where
2. (relative)where

• alape
• drape,dape
• nowanpe

Borrowed fromSpanishpe, the Spanish name of the letterP/p.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈpe/[ˈpɛ]
• Rhymes:-e
• Syllabification:pe

pe (Baybayin spellingᜉᜒ)

1. (historical)the name of theLatin-script letterP/p, in theAbecedario

   Synonyms:(in the Filipino alphabet)pi,(in the Abakada alphabet)pa

Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*pṓds. Compare the nominative/accusative dual form,peṃ, presumably fromProto-Tocharian*peine du (whence alsoTocharian Bpaine), from an earlier*pei, from theProto-Indo-European*pódh₁e du, from*pṓds. It is from this dual form in Proto-Tocharian that the singular forms have probably been analogically built. CompareTocharian Bpaiyye.^[1]

pe m

1. foot

• peṃ

• IPA^(key):/pe/

pe

1. stone,rock

• Dennis, Ronald K., Dennis, Margaret Royce de (1983)Diccionario Tol (Jicaque)-Español y Español-Tol (Jicaque)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Tegucigalpa: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page28

pe (definite accusativepeyi,pluralpeler)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterP/p.

• (Latin-script letter names)harf;a,be,ce,çe,de,e,fe,ge,yumuşak ge,he,ı,i,je,ke,le,me,ne,o,ö,pe,re,se,şe,te,u,ü,ve,ye,ze

pe (definite accusative[please provide],plural[please provide])

1. The name of theLatin-script letterP/p.

From earlierbei (nowbai), third-person singular imperfect subjunctive ofbod.^[1]

The alternative formped (whence counterfactual forms ofbod such aspetaswn andtaswn) is perhaps from addition of the affirmative particleyd (comparenad andnid).^[1]

• IPA^(key):/peː/,/pɛ/

pe

1. if(used with counterfactual conditionals, i.e., those that are impossible or considered very unlikely)

   Pe bawn i'n gyfoethog, teithiwn i o gwmpas y byd.

   If I were rich, I would travel around the world.

In the literary language,bod(“to be”) has special counterfactual forms that undergo univerbation withpe:petaswn(“if I had been”),petawn(“if I were”) etc. (seethe conjugation table for all the forms).

In the colloquial language, the counterfactual formstaswn/bawn/tawn are written separately frompe, andpe can be omitted before them:

• (pe) taswn i’n ennill y loteri ―if I were to win the lottery

• os(used with factual conditionals)

• IPA^(key):/pe/

pe

1. with,using

   natalape peda da langalongi ne ―(you) cut this ropewith a machete

   yakor tepe sosodik ―stir the teawith a spoon

2. (directional)to

   iwakope de mai ―he threw a stone at me (literally, “he threwto me (a) stone”)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982)The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics

• پعِ

• IPA^(key):/k͡pè/

pè

1. (transitive,intransitive) tocall, topronounce, tosummon, toinvoke (anorisha)

   Synonym:ké

2. (transitive) totag someone or something

• IPA^(key):/k͡pé/

pé

1. (transitive,intransitive) toassemble, tocongregate

• péjọ(“to congregate”)
• ìpé(“public gathering”)
• péjú pésẹ̀(“to gather; to assemble”)

• IPA^(key):/k͡pé/

pé

1. to becorrect, to becomplete indegree orquantity
2. to beenough
3. (idiomatic) to besane, to beintelligent, to besharp (of the mind); (literally - "to have a complete or correct mind")

• orí-pípé(“sanity”)
• pépérépéré

• IPA^(key):/k͡pé/

pé

1. tosaysomething

   Synonym:ní

• An overlaid function for the conjunctionpé (Etymology 5) whenever a verb of utterance is missing, it is always followed bykí.

• IPA^(key):/k͡pé/

pé

1. that

• In modern linguistics, the term has also been categorized as acomplementizer

• kí

• IPA^(key):/k͡pé/

pé

1. to becomerewarding orprofitable for someone

   ọjà náàpé mi dáadáa ―The market goods were veryprofitable for me

• IPA^(key):/pe˧/

pe

1. (intransitive) tokick

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013)A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page40