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ROMANIAN · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

pe.

on

2 characters1 syllables approx.Română language

Meaning & usage

prep/pe//pe̞//pə//pi/
  1. on

    cartea este pe masă
  2. on (some time during the day of)

    A plecat spre Europa acum o săptămână, mai exact, pe zece mai.
  3. on (a website)

    pe Twitter
  4. used to indicate direct object in some cases

    O aștept pe mama.
  5. through an opening

    a îi ieși (cuiva) pe gură
    a sări pe geam/fereastră
  6. approximately, thereabouts

    L-am văzut prima oară pe undeva pe aici.
    Hotelul e pe lângă gară.
Where this word comes from

From earlier pre, from Latin per, with meaning influenced by super. /r/ regularly metathesized after /pe/ and /te/ during Proto-Romanian, as seen in words like frate, but it was later dropped in rapid speech due to plosive-liquid cluster simplification prevalent in colloquial Romanian. That might also be why frate, likely having been inherited from the accusative fratrem, doesn't feature a /r/ in the second cluster while the first cluster does, although it might also be due to dissimilation from the preceding /r/.

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