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Finnish
Etymology 1
Variant of pää (“head”).
Pronunciation
Noun
piä (dialectal)
- (eastern) head
Usage notes
There's local variation in inflection.
Declension
Etymology 2
Dialectal variant of pidä.
Pronunciation
Verb
piä
- (dialectal) present active indicative connegative of pitää
- (dialectal) second-person singular present imperative of pitää
- (dialectal) second-person singular present active imperative connegative of pitää
Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *pää. Cognates include Finnish pää and Estonian pea.
Pronunciation
Noun
piä (genitive piän, partitive piädy)
- head
- chief
- end, tip
Declension
References
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) “piä”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *pää.
Noun
piä
- head