peza

See also: pezã, pezä, peža, pežā, and pęza

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeza/

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• Hyphenation: pe‧za

Adjective

peza (accusative singular pezan, plural pezaj, accusative plural pezajn)

1. heavy, onerous, weighty

Antonyms

• malpeza

Derived terms

• pezega

Related terms

• pezo

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Galician

Etymology

Attested in local medieval documents as peza (969); from Old Galician and Old Portuguese peça, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *kʷesdis. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Welsh peth, Irish cuid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛθa̝/, (western) /ˈpɛsa̝/

Noun

peza f (plural pezas)

1. piece, fragment, part, component of a larger or composite object
2. a piece of land
   • 1278, Emilio Duro Peña (ed.), El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 290:

     una leyra con una peça de monte

     a farmland patch with a piece of uncultivated land

3. subset; group
   • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 272:

     que desta dita çibdade avían partido Pero Dias de Cadorna e Martín Sánches, abade da Triindade da dita çibdade, con çerta gente de cavalo e de pe, pera Milmanda, sobre rasón de çerto insulto que ena dita villa de Millmanda avían feyto Martín de Castro, con peça de gente do señorío de Purtogal

     that from this city [Ourense] had departed Pedro Diaz de Cadorna and Martín Sánchez, abbot of the Trinity of said city, with some mounted and unmounted people, to Milmanda, because of a certain insult that in said town of Milmanda had done Martín de Castro with a group of people of the realm of Portugal

4. game piece
5. a piece leather used in shoemaking
6. latrine
7. net
8. a period of time

Derived terms

• despezar
• empezar
• empezo

References

• “peça” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “peça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “peza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “peza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “peza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä.

Noun

peza

1. nest

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä.

Noun

peza

1. nest
2. lair, den

Inflection

Inflection of peza
nominative sing.	peza
genitive sing.	pezan
partitive sing.	pezad
partitive plur.	pezoid
	singular	plural
nominative	peza	pezad
accusative	pezan	pezad
genitive	pezan	pezoiden
partitive	pezad	pezoid
essive-instructive	pezan	pezoin
translative	pezaks	pezoikš
inessive	pezas	pezoiš
elative	pezaspäi	pezoišpäi
illative	?	pezoihe
adessive	pezal	pezoil
ablative	pezalpäi	pezoilpäi
allative	pezale	pezoile
abessive	pezata	pezoita
comitative	pezanke	pezoidenke
prolative	pezadme	pezoidme
approximative I	pezanno	pezoidenno
approximative II	pezannoks	pezoidennoks
egressive	pezannopäi	pezoidennopäi
terminative I	?	pezoihesai
terminative II	pezalesai	pezoilesai
terminative III	pezassai	—
additive I	?	pezoihepäi
additive II	pezalepäi	pezoilepäi

Derived terms

• grähkänpeza
• hijamanpeza
• ilopeza
• mezipeza
• mezjaižpeza
• raudpeza
• unipeza
• pezakund

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “берлога, гнездо, логово”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika