Pehlvi or Pehlevi.
Iranic: extinct dialect of Old Persian, belonging to the Pahlav district of Western Iran or Media, but with large Semitic infusion. It is the language of the Sassanian coins, of several inscriptions of early Sassanian kings, and of the earliest comments on the Avesta, closely allied to the Zend and Old Persic; it is also called Huzvaresh, a suggestion of Spiegel’s. See Spiegel’s “Grammatik der Huzvareschen Sprache;” Haug’s Old Pahlavi-Pazand Glossary, by Asa, Bombay, 1870.
Pehuenche.
American: tribes of Araucans.
Pekinese, see [Khum].
Pelasgian.
An aboriginal tribe of Greece. Herodotus states that their speech was “barbarous”—i.e., distinct from or unintelligible to the Hellenes; but it seems to have been the basis out of which was developed classical Greek. Later writers propose to class the pre-historic dialects of Greece with the Illyrian.
Pelasgic.
Class name for combined Greek and Latin stems, sometimes called Græco-Italic, otherwise Illyrian or Thraco-Illyrian.
Pelew, Pelu.