pui

Etymology

Clipping of English Puinave.

Symbol

pui

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Puinave.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Puinave terms

Etymology

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

Noun

pui m

1. hill

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

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Further reading

• pui on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpui̯/, [ˈpui̯] (third-person indicative)
• IPA^(key): /ˈpui̯ˣ/, [ˈpui̯(ʔ)] (imperative, indicative connegative)
• Rhymes: -ui
• Syllabification^(key): pui
• 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

Etymology

From Latin pullus.

Noun

pui

1. chicken

Etymology

From Latin puteus.

Noun

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

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

Verb

pui

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [puj]

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

pui

1. water

References

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puːj¹/

Adjective

pui

1. (Cuối Chăm) joyful