piet
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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?”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]piet (plural piets)
- (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.
See also
[edit]- piet-my-vrou (etymologically unrelated, coincidentally also a bird!)
Aragonese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin pes, pedem.
Noun
[edit]piet m (plural pietz)
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]piet m (plural pieten, diminutive pietje n)
- VIP, important person
- Synonym: pief
- Synonym of Zwarte Piet
- canary
- Synonym: kanariepiet
- (Netherlands, chiefly diminutive or plural diminutive) louse
- (Belgium, childish, slang or slightly vulgar) penis
Derived terms
[edit]- pietje-precies (see list at pietje)
- piet snot
Finnish
[edit]Noun
[edit]piet
- nominative plural of piki
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]piet
Middle French
[edit]Noun
[edit]piet m (plural piets)
- Alternative form of pied
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