perna

From Middle Cornish prena, from Proto-Brythonic *prɨnad, from Proto-Celtic *kʷrinati, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷrinéh₂ti ~ *kʷrinh₂énti.

• IPA^(key): /pernə/

perna

1. (Revived Late Cornish) to buy

• pelna (Lagarteiru)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese perna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾna/

perna f (plural pernas)

1. (Mañegu, Valverdeñu, anatomy) leg

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *përna, possibly from Indo-Iranian,[1] cognate with Estonian põrn (“spleen”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpernɑ/, [ˈpe̞rnɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ernɑ
• Syllabification^(key): per‧na

perna

1. (anatomy) spleen

• lien, splen (medical vocabulary)

• “perna”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

From Old Galician-Portuguese perna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin perna. Cognate with Portuguese perna and Spanish pierna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɾna̝/

perna f (plural pernas)

1. leg
   • 1435, A. López Carreira, Fragmentos de notarios, doc. E2-8:

     ... que aderençaran ao dito Goterre Afonso et que o dito Fernando de Mourelos que sacara a espada da beyna contra o dito Goterre Afonso por lo matar, et seus conpaneiros como lo viran sacar que o ajudaran contra o dito Goterre Afonso, do qual lle logo deran huna grande ferida en huna perna esqerda, en que o feriran debayxo do gionllo ata o qualquanar

     ... they approached said Goterre Afonso and that the mentioned Fernando de Mourelos extracted the sword from its scabbard against said Goterre Afonso, for killing him; and his companions, as they saw this, helped him against said Goterre Afonso, and consequently he gave him a large wound in the left leg, in which he injured him from under the knee till the heel

2. (anatomy) shin, the region between the knee and ankle

• coxa

• “perna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “perna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “perna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “perna” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “perna” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese perna. Cognate with Kabuverdianu perna.

perna

1. leg

• perta

From Proto-Finnic *përna. Cognates include Finnish perna and Estonian põrn.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpernɑ/, [ˈpe̞rn]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpernɑ/, [ˈpe̞rnɑ]
• Rhymes: -ern, -ernɑ
• Hyphenation: per‧na

perna

1. pancreas
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 83:

     Vatsanmaost männöö pitkä hoikka sooli. Senen alkuossaa vootaa pernamahla, kumpa tekahuu pernaas, vatsanmaon al.

     From the stomach stretches the long small intestine. Into its beginning part flows the pancreatic juice, which is formed in the pancreas, below the stomach.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 399

From Portuguese perna.

perna

1. leg

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.na/, [ˈpɛrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.na/, [ˈpɛrnä]

From Proto-Italic *persnā, from Proto-Indo-European *tpḗrsneh₂ (“heel”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πτέρνη (ptérnē), Sanskrit पार्ष्णि (pā́rṣṇi), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌽𐌰 (fairzna, “heel”), Persian پاشنه (pâšne, “heel”).[1]

perna f (genitive pernae); first declension

1. A haunch or ham together with the leg, gammon.
2. (of animals) A thigh-bone, with the meat upon it to the knee-joint, a leg of pork, a ham or gammon of bacon.
3. a kind of mussel

First-declension noun.

• pernārius

See perula.

perna f (genitive pernae); first declension

1. Alternative form of perula

First-declension noun.

• “perna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “perna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• perna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• perna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 789/1, “perna”

From Latin perna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɾ.na/

perna f (plural pernas)

1. leg

• Fala: perna, pelna
• Galician: perna
• Portuguese: perna (see there for further descendants)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese perna, from Latin perna, from Proto-Indo-European *tpḗrsneh₂ (“heel”). Compare Galician perna and Spanish pierna.

• Hyphenation: per‧na

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perna f (plural pernas)

1. leg
2. stint

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: perna
• Kabuverdianu: perna