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From Proto-Finnic *perä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä. Cognates include Estonian pära, Karelian perä, Livonian piera, Erzya пря (pŕa, “head”), пиря (piŕa, “wall, head (poetic)”), Komi-Permyak бӧр (bör) and Udmurt бер (ber).

  • IPA(key): /ˈperæ/, [ˈpe̞ræ]
  • Rhymes: -eræ
  • Hyphenation(key): pe‧rä

perä

  1. rear, back, tail end (aft part of anything)
    1. (nautical) stern, aft (rear part or after end of a ship or vessel)
    2. (fishing) tail, tail end (of a seine)
  2. far end or side of something (like of a room, hallway, etc.)
  3. butt (blunt end of anything, especially that of a gun)
    kiväärinperä ― rifle butt
  4. (figuratively) basis, grounds, reality, truth, facts
    perätön ― untrue, ungrounded, unfounded

    Onko hänen puheissaan mitään perää?

    Is there any truth in what he says?
  5. (dialectal) neighbourhood
    tällä perällä ― in this neighbourhood
  6. (colloquial, anatomy) bottom, behind
  7. (colloquial, in the plural) remainder, leftovers
    keiton perät ― leftovers of a soup
  8. (archaic, now only in compounds) ground
    maaperä ― soil
    kallioperä ― bedrock
    suoperäinen ― originating from a swamp
    järkiperäinen ― rational

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From Proto-Finnic *perä. Cognates include Finnish perä and Estonian pära.

perä

  1. buttocks
  2. rear, back
  3. (fishing) bosom (of a seine)
Declension of perä (type 3/koira, no gradation, gemination)
singular plural
nominative perä perät
genitive perän perriin
partitive perrää perriä
illative perrää perrii
inessive peräs peris
elative peräst perist
allative perälle perille
adessive peräl peril
ablative perält perilt
translative peräks periks
essive perännä, perrään perinnä, perriin
exessive1) peränt perint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
  • pers (“butt, arse”)
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 400

perä

  1. rear

From Proto-Finnic *perä.

perä (genitive perä, partitive perrä)

  1. back, rear
  2. rear end, rear part
  3. backside
  4. bottom

From Proto-Finnic *perä.

perä

  1. back, rear, back end, back part, tail end (furthest or rearmost part of something)
  2. residue, remainder, sediment, grounds, etc.
  3. (in the plural) placenta
Declension of perä (type VIII/päive, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative perä peräd
genitive perä perije, perii
partitive perrä periite, perii
illative perräse, perrä periise
inessive peräz periiz
elative perässe periisse
allative peräle periile
adessive perälle periille
ablative perälte periilte
translative perässi periissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.
  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “perä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

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