py

See also: PY, py-, .py, and py.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

py (plural pys)

1. Initialism of pack-year.

Etymology 2

Noun

py (plural pys)

1. Initialism of pinyin.

Etymology 3

Preposition

py

1. (Germanesque) Pronunciation spelling of by.

See also

• PY

Anagrams

• YP, Yp, yp

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pə̟i̯]

Noun

py (plural [please provide])

1. gown

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /piː/
  • Conventional anglicization: py

Etymology 1

Noun

 m

1. flea

Inflection

Declension of py (masculine)

singular	py
dual	pywj
plural	pyw

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲫⲉⲓ (phei)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲏⲓ (pēi)

Etymology 2

According to von Beckerath, from Meroitic *𐦧𐦢‎ (*pi, “to live”), with the ankh glyph in the name merely serving as a determinative. Leprohon instead interprets the name as pꜣ (“O”) +‎ ꜥnḫy (“living one”), but notes that the reading is uncertain and considers it possible that the ankh is to be read as a prospective form of the verb ꜥnḫ (“to live”). In this case the name is indeed simply py and the ankh is not a part of it.

Proper noun

 m

1. A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Piye, a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of py  

py

References

• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) , Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 160–162
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, page 108, 111, 269–270

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Korean

Noun

py

1. pyeong — an areal unit of measure symbol/abbreviation for a traditional Korean unit

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Middle English

Noun

py

1. Alternative form of pye (“magpie”)

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Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɨ/

Noun

py

1. foot (part of the body)

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

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Welsh

Adverb

py

1. why, for what reason

Determiner

py

1. what, which

References

• Pughe, William. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Explained in English, Vol. 2.