pele

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

pele

  1. vocative singular of pel

Galician

Verb

pele

  1. inflection of pelar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese pele. Cognate with Kabuverdianu peli.

Noun

pele

  1. skin

Hawaiian

Noun

pele

  1. volcano

Hungarian

 Pelefélék on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

A loanword from Proto-Balto-Slavic *peljā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”). Compare Latvian pele, Lithuanian pelė, Old Prussian pelē.

Pronunciation

Noun

pele (plural pelék)

  1. dormouse
  2. (vulgar, slang) erect penis

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative pele pelék
accusative pelét peléket
dative pelének peléknek
instrumental pelével pelékkel
causal-final peléért pelékért
translative pelévé pelékké
terminative peléig pelékig
essive-formal peleként pelékként
essive-modal — —
inessive pelében pelékben
superessive pelén peléken
adessive pelénél peléknél
illative pelébe pelékbe
sublative pelére pelékre
allative peléhez pelékhez
elative peléből pelékből
delative peléről pelékről
ablative pelétől peléktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		peléé peléké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		pelééi pelékéi
Possessive forms of pele
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pelém peléim
2nd person sing. peléd peléid
3rd person sing. peléje peléi
1st person plural pelénk peléink
2nd person plural pelétek peléitek
3rd person plural peléjük peléik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

Further reading

  • pele in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latvian

 peles on Latvian Wikipedia
Pele (1)
Pele (2)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *peliā̃ (Lithuanian pelė, Old Prussian pelē), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“grey”).

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Noun

pele f (5th declension)

  1. mouse (esp. Mus musculus, domestic mouse)
    mājas pele ― house (= domestic) mouse
    peles ala ― mouse hole (lit. cave)
    peļu slazds, lamatas ― mousetrap
    peļu inde ― mouse poison
    peles pīkst ― mice squeak, beep
  2. (computing, also datorpele) computer mouse (movable input device used to move a pointer on a graphic display)
    datorpele ― computer mouse


Declension

Declension of pele (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) pele peles
accusative (akuzatīvs) peli peles
genitive (ģenitīvs) peles peļu
dative (datīvs) pelei pelēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) peli pelēm
locative (lokatīvs) pelē pelēs
vocative (vokatīvs) pele peles

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Lithuanian

Noun

pelè

  1. instrumental singular of pelė̃ (“mouse”)

Noun

pẽle

  1. vocative singular of pelė̃ (“mouse”)

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French pele, from Latin pāla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛːl(ə)/, /ˈpɛl(ə)/

Noun

pele (plural peles)

  1. (Late Middle English) shovel, peel

Descendants

  • English: peel
  • Yola: peel

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: pe‧le

Etymology 1

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

From Old Galician-Portuguese pele, from Latin pellem, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

Noun

pele f (plural peles)

  1. skin
  2. fur
Related terms
Descendants
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pele
  • Kabuverdianu: peli

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pele

  1. inflection of pelar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

pele

  1. inflection of pelar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Tocharian B

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pele m

  1. law, rule
  2. prison

Derived terms

  • empele (“terrible, awful”)

Further reading

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “pele”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN

Zazaki

Pronunciation

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Noun

pele

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    Synonym: per
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