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Estonian
Etymology
Allative case of pea.
Noun
peale
- allative singular of pea
Postposition
peale
- (lative) onto, on top of
Ta hüppas laua peale.- He jumped onto the table.
- for
Ta jättis kõik õhtu peale.- He left everything for the evening.
- since (governs the elative)
Eilsest peale on sadanud.- It has rained since yesterday.
Preposition
peale
- except
Peale minu ei jäänud keegi ellu.- Nobody survived except me.
- in addition, besides
Peale minu jäi ka Pets ellu.- Besides me, Pets also survived.
- after (governs the partitive)
Mulle meeldib peale söömist üks väike uinak teha.- I like to have a small nap after eating.
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Etymology
From Middle English pelen (“to beat”), from Latin pellō, pellere.
Pronunciation
Verb
peale (simple past pealt, past participle ee-pealt or ee-pealthe)
- to beat
1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 3-5:Hea daffed his cooat, pidh it an a bushe, an begaan to peale a cooat, an zide,- He took off his coat, put it on a bush, and began to beat the coat, and said,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867