# py
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

py (plural pys)
* Initialism of pack-year.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

py (plural pys)
* Initialism of pinyin.

### Etymology 3
#### Preposition

py
* (Germanesque) Pronunciation spelling of by.

##### Derived terms

* py chiminey
* py chiminy

### See also

* PY

### Anagrams

* YP, Yp, yp

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pə̟i̯]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

py (plural [please provide])
* 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
* what, which

#### Derived terms

* py lies (“how many”)

## Egyptian
### Pronunciation

* (modern Egyptological) IPA: /piː/
** Conventional anglicization: py

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

m
* flea

##### 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
* a male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Piye, a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty

##### Alternative forms

py :

### Etymology 3
#### Determiner

m sg proximal demonstrative determiner
* (Old Egyptian) Alternative form of pj (“this”)

##### Inflection

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

## Guaraní
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɨ/

### Noun

py (plural pykuéra)
* foot

## Ilocano
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaj/ [ˈpaɪ̯]

### Particle

py (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜌ᜔) (Internet slang)
* Contraction of pay.

## Korean
### Noun

py • (py)
* pyeong — an areal unit of measure symbol/abbreviation for a traditional Korean unit

## Mbyá Guaraní
### Noun

py
* foot

## Middle English
### Noun

py
* Alternative form of pye (“magpie”)

## Old Tupi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɨ/
* Rhymes: -ɨ
* Hyphenation: py

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, *mbɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ, *mbɨ.
Cognate with Guaraní py.

#### Noun

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)
* foot; paw (part of the body)

##### Descendants

* Nheengatu: pí

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨ, from Proto-Tupian *pɨ.

#### Noun

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)
* interior; inside
    Synonym: ybỹîa
    Antonym: apé

### Etymology 3

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

#### Verb

py (first-person singular active indicative aîopy, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîopyî, noun py) (transitive)
* to blow (to produce an air current)
    Synonym: peîu
* to blow; to flute (to blow a musical instrument to make it give a sound)
    Synonym: mimby

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 4

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#### Noun

py (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mby)
* width
    Synonyms: obeba, peba, popeba

#### Adjective

py (noun form py)
* wide; large
    Synonyms: -ûasu, obeb, peb, popeb
* spacious; roomy

##### Declension
### References

* 1 2 Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
* ↑ 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, 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204
* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “py”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 413–414

## Welsh
### Adverb

py
* why, for what reason

### Determiner

py
* what, which

### References

* Pughe, William. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Explained in English, Vol. 2.