apie

See also: a pie

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

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Noun

apie (plural apies)

1. diminutive of aap

Karelian

Regional variants of apie

North Karelian (Viena)	apie
South Karelian (Tver)	abie

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic обида (obida). Cognates include Finnish apea and Veps abid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpie̯/
• Hyphenation: a‧pie

Noun

apie (genitive apien, partitive apieta)

1. (North Karelian) offence, insult

Adjective

apie (genitive apien, partitive apieta, comparative apiempi, superlative apein)

1. (North Karelian) insulting, offensive

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of apie (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	apie	apiet
genitive	apien	apeijen
partitive	apieta	apeita
illative	apieh	apeih
inessive	apiešša	apeissa
elative	apiešta	apeista
adessive	apiella	apeilla
ablative	apielta	apeilta
translative	apiekši	apeiksi
essive	apiena	apeina
comitative	—	apeineh
abessive	apietta	apeitta

Possessive forms of apie
1st person	apieni
2nd person	apieš
3rd person	apieh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “грусть”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi, *h₁opi. Cognate with Latvian ap (“around, about”), Old Prussian ep-, eb-, ab-, Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí, “on, at, by”), Sanskrit अपि (ápi, “also, further, even”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈpʲɪ̌͡ə]

Preposition

apiẽ (with accusative)

1. about

   Àš niẽko nežinaũ apiẽ taĩ.

   I don't know anything about that.

Related terms

• ap-

Old French

Noun

apie

1. (Judeo-French) celery or parsley

See also

• ache

References

• Raphaël Lévy, L’aspect linguistique de la littérature judéo-française, in Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études francaises (1957), N°9, page 276