pui

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See also: pu'i

Aragonese

Etymology

Apocopated form of pueyo, from Latin podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion).

Noun

pui m

  1. hill

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch poye, from Old French poie, from Latin podia, plural of podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, base), a diminutive of πούς (poús, foot). Doublet of podium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pui f (plural puien, diminutive puitje n) (architecture)

  1. facade, front of a building
  2. large glass window frame (generally reaching from floor to ceiling) as part of the outer or inner walls of a building

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Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpui̯/, (third-person indicative)
  • IPA(key): /ˈpui̯ˣ/, (imperative, indicative connegative)
  • Rhymes: -ui
  • Hyphenation(key): pui

Verb

pui

  1. inflection of puida:
    1. third-person singular present/past indicative
    2. present active indicative connegative
    3. second-person singular present imperative
    4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin pullus.

Noun

pui

  1. chicken

Old French

Etymology

From Latin puteus.

Noun

pui oblique singularm (oblique plural puis, nominative singular puis, nominative plural pui)

  1. well (structure from which water can be drawn)

Descendants

  • French: puits

Portuguese

Verb

pui

  1. inflection of puir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin pullus, probably through a Vulgar Latin root *pulleus, or alternatively formed from the plural of an original Romanian form *pul. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (animal young). Compare Spanish pollo and Italian pollo.

Noun

pui m (plural pui)

  1. chicken
  2. chick
  3. cub, youngling, nestling, whelp, young of an animal, or less commonly of people
  4. darling, dear
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Etymology 2

Verb

pui

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pune

Sarasira

Noun

pui

  1. water

References

  • Susanne Holzknecht, The Markham languages of Papua New Guinea (1989), page 71

Tho

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *t-puːj, cognate with Vietnamese vui, Muong pui.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pui

  1. (Cuối Chăm) joyful