pey

pey

1. Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”)

• yep, pye, Yep, YEP, Pye

Compare Persian پی (pey, “behind, back”).

pey

1. after, behind

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “pey”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 444

• IPA^(key): /pʌj/

pey (plural peys)

1. (Southern Scots) a pea (in Roxburghshire)
2. (Southern Scots) pay (in Selkirkshire)

Often spelt pei (especially for the first definition).

From Ottoman Turkish پی (pey, “deposit, bid”), from Persian پی (pey).

pey (definite accusative peyi, plural peyler)

1. deposit

• “pey”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu