pii

pii

1. water

• Alfred Malandra, A New Acholi Grammar (1955), page 112

pii

1. water

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

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

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]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
• 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]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Borrowed from Swedish bi (literally “by”).

pii

1. (nautical) The position of a sailing vessel, when it is set so that its bow points steadily to the direction of 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)

pii

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

• “3. pii”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
• 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

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, 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) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.iː/, [ˈpiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.i/, [ˈpiːi]

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-Malayo-Polynesian *piliq.

pii (used in the form mangpii)

1. to choose

From Proto-Finnic *pii.

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

pii

1. prong, tooth

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