piar

piar

1. leech

From Old Galician-Portuguese , of onomatopoetic origin, or possibly from Latin pipilō, pipilāre.

• IPA^(key): /piˈaɾ/

piar (first-person singular present pío, first-person singular preterite piei, past participle piado)
piar (first-person singular present pio, first-person singular preterite piei, past participle piado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to tweet, to chirp
2. (colloquial, figurative) to covet; to ask; to speak

• tarde piaches

• pío

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese piar (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *pilāre, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

• pear

• IPA^(key): /piˈaɾ/

piar m (plural piares)

1. column; pillar (large post)

   Synonym: columna

   • 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 53:

     Et ffezo outrosi en esse castello de Gazõ, a seruiço de Deus, hũa jgleia de grande obra cõ piares et arcos de pedra marmor

     And he also made there, in this castle of Gozón, for the service of God, a large church with columns and archs of marble stone

2. pillar (essential part of something)
3. window sill

   Synonym: peitoril

4. one of several stone pillars placed by way of a bridge

   Synonym: poldra

• “piar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “piar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “piar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “piar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “piar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “piar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Middle High German bier, from Old High German bior, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”). Cognate with German Bier, English beer.

piar n

1. beer

• “piar” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Compare Awa-Cuaiquer piá.

piar

1. maize

• Sergio Elías Ortiz, Lenguas y dialectos indigenas de Colombia

From Proto-Katuic *piir. Cognate with Eastern Bru piar.

• IPA^(key):

piar 

1. flower

From Old Galician-Portuguese , from Latin pipilāre, or of onomatopoetic origin.

piar (first-person singular present pio, first-person singular preterite piei, past participle piado)

1. to chirp, to tweet (to make a short, sharp sound, as of small birds)
2. (by extension) to chat

   Synonym: falar

• pio
• piada

Of onomatopoeic origin, from pío (“cheep”), the lowing sound made by a bird. Or possibly from Latin pipilāre or pipiāre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: piar

piar (first-person singular present pío, first-person singular preterite pie, past participle piado)

1. to chirp

• “piar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28