perä

From Proto-Finnic *perä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä. Cognates include Estonian pära, Karelian perä, Livonian piera, Erzya пря (pŕa, “head”), пиря (piŕa, “wall, head (poetic)”), Komi-Permyak бӧр (bör) and Udmurt бер (ber).

• IPA^(key): /ˈperæ/, [ˈpe̞ræ]
• Rhymes: -eræ
• Hyphenation^(key): pe‧rä

perä

1. rear, back, tail end (aft part of anything)
   1. (nautical) stern, aft (rear part or after end of a ship or vessel)
   2. (fishing) tail, tail end (of a seine)
2. far end or side of something (like of a room, hallway, etc.)
3. butt (blunt end of anything, especially that of a gun)

   kiväärinperä ― rifle butt

4. (dialectal) neighbourhood

   tällä perällä ― in this neighbourhood

5. (figuratively) basis, grounds, reality, truth, facts

   perätön ― untrue

   Onko hänen puheissaan mitään perää?

   Is there any truth in what he says?

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

   keiton perät ― leftovers of a soup

8. (archaic, now only in compounds) ground

   maaperä ― soil

   kallioperä ― bedrock

   suoperäinen ― originating from a swamp

   järkiperäinen ― rational

• perse

• “perä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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

• päre

From Proto-Finnic *perä. Cognates include Finnish perä and Estonian pära.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈperæ/, [ˈpe̞ræ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈperæ/, [ˈpe̞ræ]
• Rhymes: -eræ
• Hyphenation: pe‧rä

perä

1. buttocks
2. rear, back
3. (fishing) bosom (of a seine)

Declension of perä (type 3/koira, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	perä	perät
genitive	perän	perriin
partitive	perrää	perriä
illative	perrää	perrii
inessive	peräs	peris
elative	peräst	perist
allative	perälle	perille
adessive	peräl	peril
ablative	perält	perilt
translative	peräks	periks
essive	perännä, perrään	perinnä, perriin
exessive1)	peränt	perint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• (buttocks): peppo, santukka, pers (vulgar)

• pers (“butt, arse”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 400

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

From Proto-Finnic *perä.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈperæ/, [ˈperʲæ]
• Rhymes: -eræ
• Hyphenation: pe‧rä

perä

1. back, rear, back end, back part, tail end (furthest or rearmost part of something)
2. residue, remainder, sediment, grounds, etc.
3. (in the plural) placenta

Declension of perä (type VIII/päive, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	perä	peräd
genitive	perä	perije, perii
partitive	perrä	periite, perii
illative	perräse, perrä	periise
inessive	peräz	periiz
elative	perässe	periisse
allative	peräle	periile
adessive	perälle	periille
ablative	perälte	periilte
translative	perässi	periissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “perä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn