pe
English
Etymology
From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɪ/
Noun
pe
Translations
Further reading
Pe (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Abinomn
Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
- From Proto-Albanian *petja, from Proto-Indo-European *petino-, from *pet- (“to spread out, to extend”) (compare English fathom). Alternatively from Latin pannus (“cloth, rag, garment”); cf. Greek πανί (paní).[1]
- From Proto-Albanian *pena-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to draw”).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pɛ]
Derived terms
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2000) A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, Leiden: Brill, page 313
- Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 218.
Annobonese
Etymology
From Sãotomense pe (“father”), from Portuguese pai (“father”), from Old Portuguese pay, padre (“father”), from Latin pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).
References
- 2005, John H. McWhorter, Defining Creole
Catalan
Dorig
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᵐbe/
References
- Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Faroese
Declension
Declension of pe | ||||
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n4 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | pe | peið | pe | peini |
accusative | pe | peið | pe | peini |
dative | pe, pei | penum | peum | peunum |
genitive | pes | pesins | pea | peanna |
Finnish
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of perjantai.
Noun
pe
- pe (seventeenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
Declension
Inflection of pe (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pe | pet | |
genitive | pen | peiden peitten | |
partitive | petä | peitä | |
illative | pehen | peihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pe | pet | |
accusative | nom. | pe | pet |
gen. | pen | ||
genitive | pen | peiden peitten | |
partitive | petä | peitä | |
inessive | pessä | peissä | |
elative | pestä | peistä | |
illative | pehen | peihin | |
adessive | pellä | peillä | |
ablative | peltä | peiltä | |
allative | pelle | peille | |
essive | penä | peinä | |
translative | peksi | peiksi | |
instructive | — | pein | |
abessive | pettä | peittä | |
comitative | — | peineen |
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Etymology 1
From Portuguese pé.
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe/, /pɛ/
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /peː/
Coordinate terms
References
- pe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."
Ligurian
Etymology
From Latin per, from Proto-Indo-European *peri, derived from the root *per- (“to go over”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe/
Mezquital Otomi
Middle English
Neapolitan
Old Occitan
Etymology
From Latin pedem, accusative of pes. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French pié.
Pali
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe/
- Rhymes: -e
Preposition
pe (+accusative)
- on
- cartea este pe masă - The book is on the table.
- (no lexical meaning) used to indicate direct object in some cases
- o aștept pe mama - I'm waiting on/for mom.
Usage notes
Pe takes the accusative case of nouns and is used as the marker for the direct object when said object is:
- a proper noun; the name of a person or animal
- a common noun referring to a specific person, generally known to both the speaker and listener
- a common noun acting as a metaphor for a person
- a common noun in a construction in which the subject and the direct object are the same noun and they precede the predicate
Pe is not used when the direct object is:
- a common noun designating inanimate objects or animals
- a common noun referring to an unspecified person
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin pēs, pedem (“foot”), from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.
Usage notes
In Rumantsch Grischun and Sutsilvan, the plural is pes. In Surmiran, however, it is peis.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe/
(file)
- Rhymes: -e
Further reading
- “pe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Tocharian A
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Compare the nominative/accusative dual form, peṃ, presumably from Proto-Tocharian *peine du (whence also Tocharian B paine), from an earlier *pei, from the Proto-Indo-European *póde du, from *pṓds. It is from this dual form in Proto-Tocharian that the singular forms have probably been analogically built. Compare Tocharian B paiyye. [1]
Related terms
- peṃ
Turkish
Turkmen
Welsh
Conjunction
pe
- if
- Pe bawn i'n gyfoethog, teithiwn i o gwmpas y byd — If I were rich, I would travel around the world.