pele

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛlɛ]

pele

1. vocative singular of pel

pele

1. inflection of pelar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Portuguese pele. Cognate with Kabuverdianu peli.

pele

1. skin

pele

1. volcano

A loanword from Proto-Balto-Slavic *peljā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”). Compare Latvian pele, Lithuanian pelė, Old Prussian pelē.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛlɛ]
• Hyphenation: pe‧le
• Rhymes: -lɛ

pele (plural pelék)

1. dormouse
2. (vulgar, slang) erect penis

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pele	pelék
accusative	pelét	peléket
dative	pelének	peléknek
instrumental	pelével	pelékkel
causal-final	peléért	pelékért
translative	pelévé	pelékké
terminative	peléig	pelékig
essive-formal	peleként	pelékként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pelében	pelékben
superessive	pelén	peléken
adessive	pelénél	peléknél
illative	pelébe	pelékbe
sublative	pelére	pelékre
allative	peléhez	pelékhez
elative	peléből	pelékből
delative	peléről	pelékről
ablative	pelétől	peléktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	peléé	peléké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pelééi	pelékéi

Possessive forms of pele
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pelém	peléim
2nd person sing.	peléd	peléid
3rd person sing.	peléje	peléi
1st person plural	pelénk	peléink
2nd person plural	pelétek	peléitek
3rd person plural	peléjük	peléik

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “805”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 805

• pele in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Proto-Baltic *peliā̃ (Lithuanian pelė, Old Prussian pelē), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“grey”).

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

pele f (5th declension)

1. mouse (esp. Mus musculus, domestic mouse)

   mājas pele ― house (= domestic) mouse

   peles ala ― mouse hole (lit. cave)

   peļu slazds, lamatas ― mousetrap

   peļu inde ― mouse poison

   peles pīkst ― mice squeak, beep

2. (computing, also datorpele) computer mouse (movable input device used to move a pointer on a graphic display)

   datorpele ― computer mouse

• datorpele
• pundurpele

• pelēks

• žurka f

pelè

1. instrumental singular of pelė̃ (“mouse”)

pẽle

1. vocative singular of pelė̃ (“mouse”)

• peele

From Old French pele, from Latin pāla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛːl(ə)/, /ˈpɛl(ə)/

pele (plural peles)

1. (Late Middle English) shovel, peel

• English: peel
• Yola: peel

• “pē̆l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• Hyphenation: pe‧le

From Old Galician-Portuguese pele, from Latin pellem, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

pele f (plural peles)

1. skin
2. fur

• peleiro
• pelanca

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: pele
• Kabuverdianu: peli

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pele

1. inflection of pelar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

pele

1. inflection of pelar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pele m

1. law, rule
2. prison

• empele (“terrible, awful”)

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “pele”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈpe.le]
• Hyphenation: pe‧le

pele

1. darling, sweetheart

pele

1. (stative) to be dear

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 265

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   Synonym: per