See piefe on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"*pīpan",
"Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/pīpan"
],
[
"hüle",
"hüüle#Central_Franconian"
]
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-cfr",
"2": "goh",
"3": "",
"4": "*pīfan"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*pīpan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *pīpan",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From northern Old High German *pīfan, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpan.\nThe sense “to sulk” is not in the Rheinisches Wörterbuch (vol. 6 = 1944) and would thus seem to be fairly young. It can be derived from “to wheeze”, perhaps also from the notion of someone sulkily whiffing away on their pipe. Moreover the RhWb mentions the expression hüle en piefe for wailing, lamenting.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pief",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "jepeffe",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "peife",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Moselle-Franconian"
]
}
],
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"2": "verb",
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"4": "pief",
"5": "past participle",
"6": "jepeffe"
},
"expansion": "piefe (third-person singular present pief, past participle jepeffe)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Central Franconian",
"lang_code": "gmw-cfr",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ripuarian Franconian",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to smoke a pipe"
],
"id": "en-piefe-gmw-cfr-verb-4NQfXB09",
"links": [
[
"pipe",
"pipe"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ripuarian) to smoke a pipe"
],
"tags": [
"Ripuarian"
]
},
{
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{
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"parents": [],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"to wheeze (breathe loudly and with trouble)"
],
"id": "en-piefe-gmw-cfr-verb-XR~BtCIu",
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[
"wheeze",
"wheeze"
]
],
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"(Ripuarian) to wheeze (breathe loudly and with trouble)"
],
"tags": [
"Ripuarian"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ripuarian Franconian",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to sulk, be grumpy"
],
"id": "en-piefe-gmw-cfr-verb-266zXNCp",
"links": [
[
"sulk",
"sulk"
],
[
"grumpy",
"grumpy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ripuarian) to sulk, be grumpy"
],
"tags": [
"Ripuarian"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ripuarian Franconian",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "5 6 6 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 6 6 84",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to whistle or play a wind instrument (but this sense is usual in Moselle Franconian)"
],
"id": "en-piefe-gmw-cfr-verb-ICTs3g2H",
"links": [
[
"whistle",
"whistle"
],
[
"wind instrument",
"wind instrument"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ripuarian, only in expressions) to whistle or play a wind instrument (but this sense is usual in Moselle Franconian)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in expressions"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "flöte"
}
],
"tags": [
"Ripuarian"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpiːfə/"
}
],
"word": "piefe"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"*pīpan",
"Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/pīpan"
],
[
"hüle",
"hüüle#Central_Franconian"
]
],
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{
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"3": "",
"4": "*pīfan"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*pīpan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *pīpan",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From northern Old High German *pīfan, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpan.\nThe sense “to sulk” is not in the Rheinisches Wörterbuch (vol. 6 = 1944) and would thus seem to be fairly young. It can be derived from “to wheeze”, perhaps also from the notion of someone sulkily whiffing away on their pipe. Moreover the RhWb mentions the expression hüle en piefe for wailing, lamenting.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pief",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "jepeffe",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "peife",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Moselle-Franconian"
]
}
],
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"2": "verb",
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"6": "jepeffe"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Central Franconian",
"lang_code": "gmw-cfr",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"Ripuarian Franconian"
],
"glosses": [
"to smoke a pipe"
],
"links": [
[
"pipe",
"pipe"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ripuarian) to smoke a pipe"
],
"tags": [
"Ripuarian"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ripuarian Franconian"
],
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"to wheeze (breathe loudly and with trouble)"
],
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"wheeze",
"wheeze"
]
],
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"(Ripuarian) to wheeze (breathe loudly and with trouble)"
],
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"Ripuarian"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ripuarian Franconian"
],
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"to sulk, be grumpy"
],
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[
"sulk",
"sulk"
],
[
"grumpy",
"grumpy"
]
],
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"(Ripuarian) to sulk, be grumpy"
],
"tags": [
"Ripuarian"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ripuarian Franconian"
],
"glosses": [
"to whistle or play a wind instrument (but this sense is usual in Moselle Franconian)"
],
"links": [
[
"whistle",
"whistle"
],
[
"wind instrument",
"wind instrument"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ripuarian, only in expressions) to whistle or play a wind instrument (but this sense is usual in Moselle Franconian)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"in expressions"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "flöte"
}
],
"tags": [
"Ripuarian"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpiːfə/"
}
],
"word": "piefe"
}
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