puit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjuːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

Etymology 1

French puits (“well”)

Alternative forms

• puits

Noun

puit (plural puits)

1. (obsolete) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
   • 1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, page 37:

     Further on is a puit or pit, bored in the last century, in search of salt; and then smaller reservoirs, with the blasting holes.

   • 1911, Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home, page 211:

     And then a quarter of an hour later she would say, whilst explaining to a French party: “ There were 800 English and 200 French found at the bottom of the puit at the finish of that terrible day, mesdames et messieurs."

   • 1998, Karl Smith, The Atlas Mountains, page 105:

     Cross the ravine, and a further 10 mins. across the plain see trees on the R. These trees mark the site of the puit ( well ) at El Mersse.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

puit (plural puits)

1. An insectivorous shore bird, the brown-headed gull.
   • 1895, Peter Henry Emerson, Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, page 308:

     But these pirates are always successful, as are the rats, who steal at dead of night upon the eggs, devouring them; for your rat is a deadly enemy to the puit, and many another bird besides.

Anagrams

• Tupi, ptui, tipu

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch puut (“frog”), from Old Dutch pūt, from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”). Compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), pout, Swedish puta (“to pout”). Akin to French bouder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pœy̯t/

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Noun

puit m (plural puiten, diminutive puitje n)

1. (archaic, dialectal) A frog

Synonyms

• kikker m
• (archaic) vors m

Derived terms

• puiten (verb)
• puitebloot (adjective)

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

puit (genitive puidu, partitive puitu)

1. wood

Declension

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpui̯t/,
• Rhymes: -uit
• Syllabification^(key): puit

Etymology 1

Verb

puit

1. second-person singular present/past indicative of puida

Etymology 2

Verb

puit

1. second-person singular past indicative of pukea

Anagrams

• tipu