piet

• piot, pyet, pyot

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?”)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌɪət/

piet (plural piets)

1. (now Ireland, UK regional) The magpie.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] 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.

• piet-my-vrou (etymologically unrelated, but coincidentally also a bird)

From Latin pes, pedem.

piet m (plural pietz)

1. (anatomy) foot

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piet m (plural pieten, diminutive pietje n)

1. VIP, important person

   Synonym: pief

2. Synonym of Zwarte Piet
3. canary

   Synonym: kanariepiet

4. (Netherlands, chiefly diminutive or plural diminutive) louse
5. (Belgium, childish, slang or slightly vulgar) penis

• pietje-precies (see list at pietje)
• piet snot

piet

1. nominative plural of piki

• peti

piet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of piō

piet m (plural piets)

1. Alternative form of pied