Pekka
Finnish
pronunciation
Definitions
- (card games) old maid, Old Maid unpaired card in the children's card game of "Pekka-peli", similar to "old maid"
Etymology
Derived from Latin Petrus (Peter).
Origin
Latin
Petrus
Gloss
Peter
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Petry English
- Pekkala Finnish
- Pekkanen Finnish
- Pekko Finnish
- resu Finnish
- resupekka Finnish
- veli Finnish
- velipekka Finnish
- Petropolis Latin
- Petrus Latin
- Peter German
- Piero Italian
- Pietro Italian
- Pieter Dutch, Flemish
- Pierre French
- Pedro Spanish, Castilian
- Πέτρος Ancient Greek
- Pedro Portuguese
- Per Swedish
- Petrus Old English
- Petre Middle English
- Pétr Old Norse
- Per Danish
- Pere Catalan, Valencian
- Pedr Welsh
- Peter Middle Dutch
- Petrus Middle Dutch
- Pieter Middle Dutch
- Petur Old Irish
- Pedro Old Portuguese
- Pèire Occitan
- Pedru Asturian
- Pieri Friulian
- Petras Lithuanian
- Per Breton
- Per Norwegian