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English
Etymology
From pie + -ot, with later forms remodelled after -et. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “what -ot?”)
Pronunciation
Noun
piet (plural piets)
- (now Ireland, UK regional) The magpie.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:We teach Blacke-birds, Starlins, Ravens, Piots, and Parots to chat […].
1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 446:Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are.
See also
- piet-my-vrou (etymologically unrelated, coincidentally also a bird!)
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin pes, pedem.
Noun
piet m (plural pietz)
- (anatomy) foot
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
piet m (plural pieten, diminutive pietje n)
- VIP, important person
- Synonym: pief
- Synonym of Zwarte Piet
- canary
- Synonym: kanariepiet
- (Netherlands, chiefly diminutive or plural diminutive) louse
- (Belgium, childish, slang or slightly vulgar) penis
Derived terms
Finnish
Noun
piet
- nominative plural of piki
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
piet
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of piō
Middle French
Noun
piet m (plural piets)
- Alternative form of pied