py
English
Etymology 1
Noun
py (plural pys)
- Initialism of pack-year.
Etymology 2
Noun
py (plural pys)
- Initialism of pinyin.
Etymology 3
Preposition
py
- (Germanesque) Pronunciation spelling of by.
Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pə̟i̯]
Audio: (file)
Noun
py (plural [please provide])
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Cornish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Determiner
py
Derived terms
- py lies (“how many”)
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /piː/
- Conventional anglicization: py
Etymology 1
Noun
| |
m
Inflection
| singular | py |
|---|---|
| dual | pywj |
| plural | pyw |
Descendants
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲫⲉⲓ (phei)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲏⲓ (pēi)
Etymology 2
According to von Beckerath, from Meroitic *𐦧𐦢 (*pi, “to live”), with the ankh glyph in the name merely serving as a determinative. Leprohon instead interprets the name as pꜣ (“O”) + ꜥnḫy (“living one”), but notes that the reading is uncertain and considers it possible that the ankh is to be read as a prospective form of the verb ꜥnḫ (“to live”). In this case the name is indeed simply py and the ankh is not a part of it.
Proper noun
| |
m
- a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Piye, a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty
Alternative forms
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| py |
Etymology 3
Determiner
| |
m sg proximal demonstrative determiner
- (Old Egyptian) alternative form of pj (“this”)
Inflection
| determiners | pronouns1 | adverbs | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | dual | plural | unmarked | |||||
| masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | |||
| proximal to speaker | pn |
tn |
*jpnj |
jptnj, jptntj |
jpn |
jptn |
nn |
— |
| distal | pf |
tf |
*jpfj |
*jptfj, *jptftj |
jpf |
jptf |
nf |
— |
| proximal to spoken of | pj, pw, p |
tj, tw |
jpwj |
jptwj, jptwtj |
jpw |
jptw, jptwt |
nw |
— |
| vocative | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
— |
— |
— |
— |
nꜣ |
ꜥꜣ |
1 Unmarked for number and gender, but treated syntactically as masculine plurals when used with participles and relative forms, and as feminine singulars when referred to by resumptive pronouns.
| determiners and pronouns | adverbs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural1 | |||
| masculine | feminine | |||
| proximal | pn |
tn |
nn |
ꜥn |
| distal | pf, pfꜣ |
tf, tfꜣ |
nf, nfꜣ |
ꜥf |
| ‘copula’ and vocative | pw, pwy |
tw, twy |
nw |
— |
| anaphoric | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
nꜣ |
ꜥꜣ |
1 Joined by n(j) to nouns they modify.
| masculine | feminine | plural | adverb | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pronoun | pꜣw |
dj | |||
| determiners and pronouns | pꜣj |
tꜣj |
nꜣj | ||
| possessive determiners1 | pꜣy |
tꜣy |
nꜣy | ||
| relational pronouns (‘possessive prefixes’) | p-n, pꜣ |
t-nt, tꜣ |
nꜣyw, nꜣ | ||
| definite articles | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
nꜣ2 | ||
| indefinite articles | wꜥ2 |
nhꜣy2 | |||
1 Used with suffix pronouns.
2 Originally joined by n(j) to nouns they modify; later without it.
References
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, pages 160–162
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 108, 111, 269–270
Guaraní
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɨ/
Noun
py (plural pykuéra)
Ilocano
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpaj/ [ˈpaɪ̯]
Particle
py (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜌ᜔) (Internet slang)
- contraction of pay
Korean
Noun
py • (py)
- pyeong — an areal unit of measure symbol/abbreviation for a traditional Korean unit
Mbyá Guaraní
Noun
py
Middle English
Noun
py
- alternative form of pye (“magpie”)
Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɨ/
- Rhymes: -ɨ
- Hyphenation: py
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, *mbɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ, *mbɨ.[1]
Noun
py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)
Descendants
- Nheengatu: pí
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ.[1]
Noun
py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)
Etymology 3
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pˀɨ.[2]
Verb
py (first-person singular active indicative aîopy, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîopyî, noun py) (transitive)
- to blow (to produce an air current)
- Synonym: peîu
- to blow; to flute (to blow a musical instrument to make it give a sound)
- Synonym: mimby
Conjugation
| Causative | pyukar | |||||
| Causative-comitative | eropy | |||||
| Reflexive | îepy | |||||
| Deverbals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -ba'e | oîopyba'e | |||||
| emi- | emimy / mimy | |||||
| -pyr(a) | i pypyra | |||||
| -sab(a) | pŷaba / pysaba | |||||
| -sar(a) | pŷara / pysara | |||||
| Singular | Singular & Plural | Plural | ||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person exclusive | 1st person inclusive | 2nd person | |
| Verbal forms | ||||||
| Active | ||||||
| Indicative | aîopy | ereîopy | oîopy | oroîopy | îaîopy | peîopy |
| Permissive | t'aîopy | t'ereîopy | t'oîopy | t'oroîopy | t'îaîopy | ta peîopy |
| Imperative | eîopy | peîopy | ||||
| Negative indicative | n'aîopyî | n'ereîopyî | n'oîopyî | n'oroîopyî | n'îaîopyî | na peîopyî |
| Negative permissive | t'aîopy umẽ | t'ereîopy umẽ | t'oîopy umẽ | t'oroîopy umẽ | t'îaîopy umẽ | ta peîopy umẽ |
| Negative imperative | eîopy umẽ | peîopy umẽ | ||||
| Nominal forms | ||||||
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Affirmative | py | |||||
| Negative | pye'yma | |||||
| Gerund | ||||||
| Affirmative | xe pŷabo | nde pŷabo | i pŷabo | oré pŷabo | îandé pŷabo | pe pŷabo |
| Negative | xe pye'yma | nde pye'yma | i pye'yma | oré pye'yma | îandé pye'yma | pe pye'yma |
| Circumstantial | ||||||
| Affirmative | xe pyû | i pyû | oré pyû | îandé pyû | ||
| Negative | xe pye'ymi | i pye'ymi | oré pye'ymi | îandé pye'ymi | ||
Etymology 4
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Noun
py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)
Adjective
py (noun form py)
Declension
| Causative | momy | |||||
| Deadjectivals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -ba'e | i pyba'e | |||||
| -sab(a) | pŷaba / pysaba | |||||
| Singular | Singular & Plural | Plural | ||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person exclusive | 1st person inclusive | 2nd person | |
| Adjectival forms | ||||||
| Active | ||||||
| Indicative | xe py | nde py | i py | oré py | îandé py | pe py |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Permissive | ta xe py | ta nde py | t'i py | t'oré py | t'îandé py | ta pe py |
| Negative indicative | na xe pyî | na nde pyî | n'i pyî | n'oré pyî | n'îandé pyî | na pe pyî |
| Negative imperative | nde py umẽ | pe py umẽ | ||||
| Negative permissive | ta xe py umẽ | ta nde py umẽ | t'i py umẽ | t'oré py umẽ | t'îandé py umẽ | ta pe py umẽ |
| Gerund | ||||||
| Affirmative | xe pyramo | nde pyramo | o pyramo | oré pyramo | îandé pyramo | pe pyramo |
| Negative | xe pye'ymamo | nde pye'ymamo | o pye'ymamo | oré pye'ymamo | îandé pye'ymamo | pe pye'ymamo |
| Nominal forms | ||||||
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Affirmative | py | |||||
| Negative | pye'yma | |||||
| Circumstantial | ||||||
| Affirmative | same as gerund1 | |||||
| xe pyû2 | i pyû2 | oré pyû2 | îandé pyû2 | |||
| Negative | same as gerund1 | |||||
| xe pye'ymi2 | i pye'ymi2 | oré pye'ymi2 | îandé pye'ymi2 | |||
| 1South Tupi 2North Tupi | ||||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
- ^ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí[2], 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “py”, in Dicionário 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, pages 413–414
Welsh
Adverb
py
Determiner
py
References
- Pughe, William. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Explained in English, Vol. 2.