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Where does “πεῖ” come from?

πεῖ (Ancient Greek) comes from Proto-Semitic pay- — the mouth.

πεῖ (Ancient Greek): pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the...

Definitions

  1. pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the...

Ancestry of “πεῖ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Semiticpay-the mouth

Words derived from “πεῖ”

  • pi
  • pion
  • pionic
  • pionium
  • dipion
  • photopion
  • pionful
  • Pi Day
  • antipion
  • piphilology
  • multipion
  • pi meson
  • piphilologist
  • technipion
  • pi-jaw
  • pionless
  • nonpionic
  • pi
  • pii
  • pi
  • πι
  • pay
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