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

• piinen

• silikaatti
• silikoni

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
2. (weaving) dent in a reed
3. (archaic) Synonym of hammas (“tooth”)

• (prong etc.): piikki, hammas

• selkäpii

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

< Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî)

pii

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

From Proto-Finnic *pii, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *piŋe. 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]
• (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.

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

pii

1. prong, tooth

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