pilli

pilli

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpilː.i/

pilli (animate, plural pipiltin)

1. A noble, a nobleman or woman.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 181r.:

     Noble por fama conocido. pilli.mauizçotl.

     A noble, (someone) known by fame. pilli.mauizçotl.

   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 81v. col. 2.:

     Pilli. cuallero, o noble perſona.

     Pilli. a knight, a noble person.

   • c1600, anonymous author, Anónimo mexicano, f. 28v.:

     auh ynin Pipiltin chichimeca, omo çecan xe lo que. ynic nican cecapal huíc tezcôco,

     And these Chichimec nobles separated themselves, coming here by way of Tetzcoco.

2. (chiefly in compounds or derivatives) child

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Vocative: pillé

• Frances Karttunen (1992) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Oklahoma Press, page 195
• Alonso de Molina (2008) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana (1571), Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, page 81

pilli

1. genitive singular of pill
2. partitive singular of pill
3. illative singular of pill

From Proto-Finnic *pilli, ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpilːi/, [ˈpilːi]
• Rhymes: -ilːi
• Syllabification^(key): pil‧li
• Hyphenation^(key): pil‧li

pilli

1. whistle (device)
2. (music) pipe (wind instrument consisting of a tube)
3. drinking straw, straw
4. (mycology) pore
5. (colloquial) bag (breathalyzer)

• (whistle): vihellin
• (drinking straw): juomapilli
• (breathalyzer): alkometri

• pili (not to be confused with)

• “pilli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From Proto-Finnic *pilli. Cognates include Finnish pilli and Estonian pill.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpilːi/, [ˈpilʲː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpilːi/, [ˈpilːi]
• Rhymes: -ilʲː, -ilːi
• Hyphenation: pil‧li

pilli

1. pipe, flute
   • 1937, N. A. Iljin, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (kolmas osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 42:

     Hää otti kormanast pillin i noisi soittamaa.

     He took a pipe out of his pocket and began to play.

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “пилли”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 697
• Olga I. Konkova (2009) Ижора: Очерки истории и культуры‎^[2], Saint Petersburg, →ISBN, page 208

• IPA^(key): /ˈpil.li/
• Rhymes: -illi
• Hyphenation: pìl‧li

pilli

1. plural of pillo

pilli

1. (dialectal) nominative masculine plural of pills

from French pile

pilli

1. battery (device producing electricity)

• (device producing electricity): bateri

From Proto-Finnic *pilli.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈpilːi/, [ˈpʲilːi]
• Rhymes: -ilːi
• Hyphenation: pil‧li

pilli

1. pipe, fife, flute, svirel

• pillittä

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “pilli”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

pilli

1. alternative form of pilla

• The Courier-Mail, 28 August 1933, "MEANING OF INDOOROOPILLY.".