pihi

Back-formation from pihistää

• IPA^(key): /ˈpihi/, [ˈpiɦi]
• Rhymes: -ihi
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧hi
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧hi

pihi (comparative pihimpi, superlative pihein)

1. miserly, stingy

   Synonyms: itara, kitsas, nuuka, saita

• antelias

• “pihi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ˈpihi/, [ˈpiɦi] (third-person indicative)
• IPA^(key): /ˈpihiˣ/, [ˈpiɦi(ʔ)] (imperative, indicative connegative)
• Rhymes: -ihi
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧hi
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧hi

pihi

1. inflection of pihiä:
   1. third-person singular past indicative
   2. present active indicative connegative
   3. second-person singular present imperative
   4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

From ʻopihi “limpet”^[1]

pihi

1. scab, scar
2. button, badge, any fastened object

From Proto-Polynesian *pihi₁ (cognate with Samoan pipisi “to gush, to spout” and Tongan pihi “to squirt”) from Proto-Oceanic *pisi ~ *bʷisi “to spurt out, to fart”, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *picik “to splash, to spray, to sprinkle” (compare with Malay percik and recik “to splatter, to spray”).^[1][2]

pihi (passive pihia)

1. to spring up
2. to start growing, to sprout

pihi

1. sprout, shoot, bud
2. horn, antler^[3]

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “pihi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 325
• “pihi” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.