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 dialectal) water

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

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

From Proto-Uralic *pije; possibly related to etymology (2).

pii

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

• (flint): piikivi

• piinen

• silikaatti
• silikoni

From Proto-Finnic *pii, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *piŋe. Cognates include Hungarian fog (“tooth”).

pii

1. (dated) A thorn, prong, tooth or similar element e.g. in a plant, a saw or a rake.
2. (weaving) A dent in a reed
3. (nautical) The position of a sailing vessel, when she is set so that its bow points steadily to the direction of the wind. Used in expressions:
   • olla piissä
     • to lie hove-to
   • asettua piihin
     • to heave-to

• (prong etc.): piikki, hammas

• selkäpii

• pirta

< Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî)

pii

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

pii m pl

1. Masculine plural of adjective pio.

piī

1. nominative masculine plural of pius
2. genitive masculine singular of pius
3. genitive neuter singular of pius
4. vocative masculine plural of pius

pii

1. water

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

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