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päl
- adessive singular of pä
päl
- on, on top of (stationary location)
- over, above
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “на, над, надо”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary][1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika