perä

From Proto-Finnic *perä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä. Cognates include Estonian pära, Karelian perä, Livonian piera, Erzya пря (prja), Komi-Permyak бӧр (bör) and Udmurt бэр (ber).

perä

1. rear, back, tail end (aft part of anything)
2. (nautical) stern, aft (rear part or after end of a ship or vessel)
3. butt (blunt end of anything, especially that of a gun)

   kiväärinperä ― rifle butt

4. (dialectal) neighbourhood

   tällä perällä ― in this neighbourhood

5. truth, reality, facts

   Onko hänen puheissaan mitään perää?

   Is there any truth in what he says?

   perätön ― untrue

6. (colloquial, anatomy) bottom, behind
7. (colloquial, in the plural) remainder, leftovers

   keiton perät ― leftovers of a soup

8. (archaic) ground. The sense still lives in compound terms, such as:

   maaperä

   kallioperä

   suoperäinen

   järkiperäinen (lit: grounded on reason) = rational

• perse

• päre

perä

1. rear

From Proto-Finnic *perä.

perä (genitive perä, partitive perrä)

1. back, rear
2. rear end, rear part
3. backside
4. bottom

• perädü