pelle
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pelle
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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.
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pelle
- A clown.
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Inflection of pelle (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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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 pelleinrare | ||
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. |
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- “pelle”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”). Doublet of pale.
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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
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- “pelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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pelle
- inflection of pellen:
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pelle (uncountable)
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Etymology 1 edit
From Latin pellis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).
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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.”)
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- non stare più nella pelle (“can't wait (to do something)”)
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pelle
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pelle
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pelle
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Etymology edit
From Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).
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pelle f (plural pelles)