Finnish

Noun

perä

1. The aft part of anything, the rear, the back, the tail end
2. (nautical) The stern of a vessel.
3. The butt of a gun.
4. (dialectal) A neighbourhood
5. In certain idioms, the truth or the foundation.
6. (colloquial) The bottom or the ass.
7. (archaic) ground. The sense still lives in compound terms, such as:

   maaperä

   kallioperä

   suoperäinen

   järkiperäinen (lit: grounded on reason) = rational

   perätön = ungrounded

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• päre

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *perä.

Noun

perä ‎(genitive perä, partitive perrä)

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

Inflection

Derived terms

• perädü