pii

Abbreviation of English Pini.

pii

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Pini.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pini terms

pii

1. water

• Blackings, Mairi John (2009) Acholi English – English Acholi Dictionary‎^[1], Munich: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 110

pii

1. water

• Mechthild Reh, Anywa language: description and internal reconstructions (1996)

• IPA^(key): /pi.i/

pii

1. river

• Curnow, T. J. (1997). A grammar of Awa Pit (Cuaiquer): An indigenous language of south-western Colombia. The Australian National University.

pii

1. (Maiak dialect) water

• Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages (2011, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiː/, [ˈpiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Syllabification^(key): pii
• Hyphenation^(key): pii

From Proto-Finnic *pii (“flint”), from Proto-Uralic *pije (“rock, stone”); possibly related to etymology (2).

pii

1. silicon (element, symbol Si)
2. (dated) flint (hard, fine-grained quartz or a piece of it)

   Synonym: piikivi

• (flint): piikivi

• silikaatti
• silikoni

• “1. pii”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (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
• Pii (alkuaine) on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

From Proto-Finnic *pii (“tooth”), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *piŋe (“tooth”). Cognates include Ingrian pii (“spike”), Erzya пей (pej, “tooth”) and Hungarian fog (“tooth”).

pii

1. (dated) thorn, prong, tooth or similar element e.g. in a plant, a saw or a rake

   Synonyms: hammas, oka, ota, piikki

2. (weaving) dent in a reed

• “2. pii”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (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

Borrowed from Swedish bi (literally “by”).

pii

1. (nautical) lying hove-to; the position of a sailing vessel, when it is set so that its bow points steadily to the wind

   olla piissä ― to lie hove-to

   asettua piihin ― to heave-to

• Pii (purjehdus) on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

< Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî)

Greek letter

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pii

1. pi (Greek letter)
2. (mathematics) pi (constant 3.14159…)

• “3. pii”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (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
• Pii (kirjain) on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi
• Pii (vakio) on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

From Proto-Finnic *pii. Cognates include Finnish pii and Estonian pii.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː/, [ˈpiː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː/, [ˈpiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: pii

pii

1. spike

Declension of pii (type 8/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	pii	piit
genitive	piin	piijen
partitive	piitä	piitä
illative	piihe	piihe
inessive	piis	piis
elative	piist	piist
allative	piille	piille
adessive	piil	piil
ablative	piilt	piilt
translative	piiks	piiks
essive	piinnä, piin	piinnä, piin
exessive1)	piint	piint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[5], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 413

pii m pl

1. masculine plural of pio

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpi.iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.i]

piī

1. inflection of pius:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

pii

1. water

• Rosalba Miceli, A. Pozzati, G. Panza, Dizionario Giur (1993)

• IPA^(key): /pɪ̀ː/

pii

1. water

pii

1. alternative form of pi

pî̤i (genitive pí̤i-né̤)

1. water

• Tatiana Reid, Aspects of Phonetics, Phonology and Morphophonology of Thok Reel (2010) pages 30 and 33

From Proto-Finnic *pii.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː/, [ˈpʲiː]
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: pii

pii

1. prong, tooth

Declension of pii (type I/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	pii	piid
genitive	pii	piije
partitive	piite	piite
illative	pihhi, pihise	piise
inessive	piiz	piiz
elative	piisse	piisse
allative	piile	piile
adessive	piille	piille
ablative	piilte	piilte
translative	piissi	piissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “pii”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn