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The New Shorter OED cites Modern Greek 'petta' and 'pitta', Turkish 'pide' and Aramaic 'pitta'.
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See on midagi, mida me kõik ühiselt ajame, mitte anonüümne moodustis, mida on kõige parem petta.
tatsutahime Diary Entry tatsutahime 2006
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"Vhat means petta-vairsion?" says the Baron, looking undecided and not exactly delighted.
Under the Southern Cross Elizabeth Robins 1907
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Bula finakcha'i i hinasso-ku sa 'put i dinitieni annai manotohge ham gi i famfa'pusan i kuattongupot sa' in nanangga para u fanma baba i petta siha.
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The 'petta thullal' at Erumely by the Ambalappuzha and Alangadu teams will be held on January 11.
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"Parayi petta Panthirukulam" (the twelve clans given birth by the aboriginal lady.) is part of the Indian-Mythology.
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On another occasion, he fell into the canal before our house, and terrified us by going under twice before the arrival of the old gondolier, who called out to him "_Petta! petta!
Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878
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Litr - D. (dj Qllum gódum maiinnura« peim fem petta brcf fia edr heyra fendir Snorri preftr porleiifsfon Officialis i SkalhoUti (jvediu guds ok fma.
Finni Johannæi ... Historia ecclesiastica Islandiæ [ed. by J. Finnsson]. Finnr Jónsson 1774
errguitar commented on the word petta
As used in software estimating, a Petta, or Petta Unit, is a period of 3-months in which to complete an entire application. Freely adopted from the Friedman unit, a neologism coined by Duncan Black to describe journalist Thomas Friedman's repeated use of "the next six months" as the period in which, according to Friedman, "we're going to find out...whether a decent outcome is possible" in the Iraq War.
Wikipedia: Friedman Unit
March 27, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word petta
In Piedmontese, this word means "(he/she/it) farts".
March 27, 2009