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See also: pää-

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *päŋe. Cognates include Estonian pea, Veps pä, Moksha and Erzya пе (pe, “end”) and Hungarian fej, fő.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæː/, [ˈpæː]
  • Rhymes: -æː
  • Syllabification(key): pää
  • Hyphenation(key): pää

Noun

pää

  1. head (part of a body)
    ahtaa päähänsä ― to cram (information) into one's head, to study hard
  2. head (leader, expert, e.g. of an organisation)
  3. head (part in a machine)
  4. end, tip (physical end, especially when there is no clear "beginning" and "end" but only two ends, and especially one that tapers to a single point)
    Near-synonym: pääty
  5. (in external locative cases, in expressions) mood
    hyvällä päällä ― in a good mood

Usage notes

  • "on one's head" is translated with the internal locative cases (inessive, illative, elative) into Finnish when referring to headgear:
    Miehellä oli hattu päässään.
    The man had a hat on his head. / The man wore a hat.
  • example of adessive case usage:
    Mies seisoi päällään.
    The man was standing on his head.
  • adessive (päällä), ablative (päältä) and allative (päälle) cases have also adverbial and postpositional usage; see respective entries
  • inessive (päässä), elative (päästä) and illative (päähän) cases have also postpositional usage relating to distance; see respective entries

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

adjectives
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nouns
proper nouns
verbs
compounds
idioms

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pää. Cognates include Finnish pää and Estonian pea.

Pronunciation

Noun

pää

  1. head
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59:
      päähä hattu painettii, suuhu piippu pissettii.
      A hat was pushed onto his head, a pipe was stuck into his mouth.
  2. head (of cabbage)
    • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 19:
      Jos leikata kahtee kapussan pää, ni näkkyy, jot hänes ono paljo vaalastavvia lehtilöjä, kummat loottiijaat toin toisee ja ovat kiin paksuus varrees.
      If you cut the head of a cabbage in two, then you'll see, that in it there are a lot of whitish leaves, which lie one on top of the other and they are contained in a thick stalk.
  3. ear (of grain)
    • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:
      Peltoilt jo leipä ono korjattu, se korjattii ku vaa päis valmistuivat jyvät.
      Bread is already collected from the fields, it was collected as soon as the corns ripened in their ears.
  4. Measure word for animals: head
    • 1937, N. S. Popova, translated by A. Kolesova, Arifmetiikan oppikirja alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 47:
      Zavoda teki kolt kroljcatnikkaa kaikkia 1000 päätä vart.
      A factory makes three hutches for 1000 animals in total.

Adjective

pää (not comparable)

  1. chief, main

Declension

More information Declension of (type 8/maa, no gradation), singular ...

Derived terms

References

  • Fedor Tumansky (1790), “пеа”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 679
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 452
  • Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 78
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Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe.

Noun

pää (genitive pää, partitive pääd)

  1. head
  2. end, tip

Inflection

Inflection of pää
More information singular, plural ...

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe.

Pronunciation

Noun

pää

  1. head
  2. head, hair on the head
  3. end (of something)
  4. top, summit

Inflection

More information Declension of (type I/maa, no gradation), singular ...

References

  • Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “pää”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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