py

See also: Appendix:Variations of "py"

English

Etymology 1

Noun

py (plural pys)

  1. Initialism of pack-year.

Etymology 2

Noun

py (plural pys)

  1. Initialism of pinyin.

Etymology 3

Preposition

py

  1. (Germanesque) Pronunciation spelling of by.
Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pə̟i̯]
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Noun

py (plural [please provide])

  1. gown

References

Cornish

Etymology

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Determiner

py

  1. what, which

Derived terms

  • py lies (how many)

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

 m

  1. flea
Inflection
Declension of py (masculine)
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

  1. a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Piye, a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

Determiner

 m sg proximal demonstrative determiner

  1. (Old Egyptian) alternative form of pj (this)
Inflection
Old Egyptian demonstratives
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.

Middle Egyptian demonstratives
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.

Late Egyptian demonstratives and articles
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)

  1. foot

Ilocano

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaj/ [ˈpaɪ̯]

Particle

py (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜌ᜔) (Internet slang)

  1. contraction of pay

Korean

Noun

py • (py)

  1. pyeong — an areal unit of measure symbol/abbreviation for a traditional Korean unit

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

py

  1. foot

Middle English

Noun

py

  1. alternative form of pye (magpie)

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɨ/
  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation: py

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, *mbɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ, *mbɨ.[1]

Cognate with Guaraní py.

Noun

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)

  1. foot; paw (part of the body)
Descendants

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ.[1]

Noun

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)

  1. interior; inside
    Synonym: ybỹîa
    Antonym: apé

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)

  1. to blow (to produce an air current)
    Synonym: peîu
  2. to blow; to flute (to blow a musical instrument to make it give a sound)
    Synonym: mimby
Conjugation

Etymology 4

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Noun

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)

  1. width
    Synonyms: obeba, peba, popeba

Adjective

py (noun form py)

  1. wide; large
    Synonyms: -ûasu, obeb, peb, popeb
  2. spacious; roomy
Declension

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. ^ 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

Welsh

Adverb

py

  1. why, for what reason

Determiner

py

  1. what, which

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