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py (plural pys)

  1. Initialism of pack-year.

py (plural pys)

  1. Initialism of pinyin.

py

  1. (Germanesque) Pronunciation spelling of by.

py (plural [please provide])

  1. gown

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py

  1. what, which

 m

  1. flea

Declension of py (masculine)

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.

 m

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

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of py  

  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (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, pages 160–162
  • von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 108, 111, 269–270

py (plural pykuéra)

  1. foot

py (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜌ᜔) (Internet slang)

  1. Contraction of pay.

py • (py)

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

py

  1. foot

py

  1. Alternative form of pye (“magpie”)
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɨ/
  • Rhymes: -ɨ
  • Hyphenation: py

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, *mbɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ, *mbɨ.[1]

Cognate with Guaraní py.

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)

  1. foot; paw (part of the body)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ.[1]

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)

  1. interior; inside
    Synonym: ybỹîa
    Antonym: apé

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pˀɨ.[2]

py (first-person singular active indicative aîopy, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîopyî, gerund pŷabo, noun py) (transitive)

  1. to blow (to produce an air current)
    Synonym: peîu
  2. to blow; to flute (to blow a musical instrument to make it give a sound)
    Synonym: mimby

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py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)

  1. width
    Synonyms: obeba, peba, popeba

py (noun form py)

  1. wide; large
    Synonyms: -ûasu, obeb, peb, popeb
  2. spacious; roomy
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. ^ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí‎[2], 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204

py

  1. why, for what reason

py

  1. what, which