pelle
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]pelle
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Swedish pelle (no longer common), after its usage in Pelle Jöns (compare Swedish pellejöns), originally from Pelle, a diminutive form of Peter and/or Per.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pelle
- A clown.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of pelle (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
---|---|---|---|
nominative | pelle | pellet | |
genitive | pellen | pellejen | |
partitive | pelleä | pellejä | |
illative | pelleen | pelleihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pelle | pellet | |
accusative | nom. | pelle | pellet |
gen. | pellen | ||
genitive | pellen | pellejen pellein rare | |
partitive | pelleä | pellejä | |
inessive | pellessä | pelleissä | |
elative | pellestä | pelleistä | |
illative | pelleen | pelleihin | |
adessive | pellellä | pelleillä | |
ablative | pelleltä | pelleiltä | |
allative | pellelle | pelleille | |
essive | pellenä | pelleinä | |
translative | pelleksi | pelleiksi | |
abessive | pellettä | pelleittä | |
instructive | — | pellein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “pelle”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”). Doublet of pale.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pelle f (plural pelles)
- shovel, spade
- 1945, “Les feuilles mortes”, Jacques Prévert (lyrics), Joseph Kosma (music):
- Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle / Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi
- Dead leaves are shovelled up / Memories and regrets are too
- dustpan
- fluke (anchor blade)
- (slang) French kiss
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]pelle
- inflection of pellen:
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]pelle (uncountable)
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin pellis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pelle f (plural pelli)
- skin
- hide (animal's skin)
- leather
- Synonym: cuoio
- life, existence
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- I più intelligenti rompevano le regole e al tempo stesso si salvavano la pelle.
- The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.
- (literally, “The most intelligent ones broke the rules and at the same time saved their lives.”)
Derived terms
[edit]- non stare più nella pelle (“can't wait (to do something)”)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Contraction
[edit]pelle
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]pelle
Verb
[edit]pelle
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).
Noun
[edit]pelle f (plural pelles)
Categories:
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/elːe
- Rhymes:Finnish/elːe/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- fi:People
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French doublets
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French terms with homophones
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French terms with quotations
- French slang
- fr:Cleaning
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German non-lemma forms
- German verb forms
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua nouns
- ia:Anatomy
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛlle
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛlle/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian terms with quotations
- Rhymes:Italian/elle
- Rhymes:Italian/elle/2 syllables
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian contractions
- Italian dated terms
- it:Skin
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin noun forms
- Latin verb forms
- Norman terms derived from Latin
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
- Norman feminine nouns
- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Tools