py

See also: Appendix:Variations of "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.

Derived terms

• py chiminey
• py chiminy

See also

• PY

Anagrams

• YP, Yp, yp

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pə̟i̯]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

py (plural [please provide])

1. gown

References

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

Cornish

Etymology

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

Determiner

py

1. what, which

Derived terms

• py lies (“how many”)

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

Etymology 3

Determiner

 m sg proximal demonstrative determiner

1. (Old Egyptian) alternative form of pj (“this”)

Inflection

Old Egyptian demonstratives

	determiners						pronouns1	adverbs
	singular		dual		plural		unmarked
	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
proximal to speaker	pn	tn	*jpnj	jptnj, jptntj	jpn	jptn	nn	—
distal	pf	tf	*jpfj	*jptfj, *jptftj	jpf	jptf	nf	—
proximal to spoken of	pj, pw, p	tj, tw	jpwj	jptwj, jptwtj	jpw	jptw, jptwt	nw	—
vocative	pꜣ	tꜣ	—	—	—	—	nꜣ	ꜥꜣ

¹ Unmarked for number and gender, but treated syntactically as masculine plurals when used with participles and relative forms, and as feminine singulars when referred to by resumptive pronouns.

Middle Egyptian demonstratives

	determiners and pronouns			adverbs
	singular		plural1
	masculine	feminine
proximal	pn	tn	nn	ꜥn
distal	pf, pfꜣ	tf, tfꜣ	nf, nfꜣ	ꜥf
‘copula’ and vocative	pw, pwy	tw, twy	nw	—
anaphoric	pꜣ	tꜣ	nꜣ	ꜥꜣ

¹ Joined by n(j) to nouns they modify.

Late Egyptian demonstratives and articles

	masculine	feminine	plural		adverb
pronoun	pꜣw				dj
determiners and pronouns	pꜣj	tꜣj	nꜣj
possessive determiners1	pꜣy	tꜣy	nꜣy
relational pronouns (‘possessive prefixes’)	p-n, pꜣ	t-nt, tꜣ	nꜣyw, nꜣ
definite articles	pꜣ	tꜣ	nꜣ2
indefinite articles	wꜥ2		nhꜣy2

¹ Used with suffix pronouns.
² Originally joined by n(j) to nouns they modify; later without it.

References

• 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

Ilocano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaj/ [ˈpaɪ̯]

Particle

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

1. contraction of pay

Korean

Noun

py • (py)

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

Mbya Guarani

Noun

py

1. foot

Middle English

Noun

py

1. alternative form of pye (“magpie”)