pein

pein (plural peins)

1. Alternative form of peen.

pein (third-person singular simple present peins, present participle peining, simple past and past participle peined)

1. Alternative form of peen.

• -pine, INPE, IPEN, Pine, pine

pein

1. Rōmaji transcription of ペイン

pein

1. woman

• ABVD
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [pʲɛ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pʲɛj/
• Bender phonemes: {pey}

pein

1. alternative form of pā

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, itself from *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

pein

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

From Proto-Oceanic *babinahi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, itself from *bahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

pein

1. woman

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bahi”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI