pūt

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See also: put, PUT, pût, and puț

Latvian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *pūteiti.

Cognates include Lithuanian pūti (id.), Gothic fūls, Old High German fūl, German faul (rotten, rancid, lazy), Old Norse feyja (to cause to rot), Sanskrit पूयति (pūyati, rots, smells), Ancient Greek πῡ́θω (pū́thō, I cause to rot), Latin pūteō (I rot, smell rotten), pūtidus, puter (rotten), Persian پوسیدن (to rot).

Past stem puv- derivations: puve, puvekļi, puveši, puvums, papuve, regional puvēns (= puveklis "a chunk of rotten matter").[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

pūt (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present pūstu, pūsti, pūst, past puvu)

  1. to rot

Conjugation

Derived terms

Verb

pūt

  1. (deprecated template usage) 2nd person singular present indicative form of pūst
  2. (deprecated template usage) 2nd person singular imperative form of pūst

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pūt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN