puig

Inherited from Old Catalan puig (also spelled puix), from Latin podium (“balcony”), borrowed from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “base”). Doublet of podi and pòdium, both borrowings from Latin. Compare Occitan puèg, regional French puy (“mountain; hill”), Sicilian poju.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈput͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -utʃ

puig m (plural puigs)

1. hill; peak

   Synonyms: cim, muntanya, turó, tossal

• Puig
• Puigdemont
• pujol

• “puig” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “puig” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• puig on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca