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perä

Pronunciation: /ˈperæ/

“perä” is a Finnish word. Its 12 meanings in English:

noun

  1. stern, aft (rear part or after end of a ship or vessel)
  2. tail, tail end (of a seine)
  3. far end or side of something (like of a room, hallway, etc.)
  4. butt (blunt end of anything, especially that of a gun)
  5. basis, grounds, reality, truth, facts
  6. stipe (part of the stalk supporting the flower)
  7. drift (horizontal tunnel)
  8. breech (part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber)
  9. neighbourhood
  10. bottom, behind
  11. remainder, leftovers
  12. ground

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *perä (compare Estonian pära), from Proto-Uralic *perä ~ *pirä (compare Erzya пря (pŕa, “head”), Komi-Permyak бӧр (bör), Eastern Khanty пӛртӓх (pjərtäh)).

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