puch

Chuukese

Adjective

puch

1. foolish

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Irish

Noun

puch m (genitive singular puich, nominative plural puich)

1. wasp

   Synonym: foiche

Declension

Declension of puch

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative puch puich Vocative a phuich a phucha Genitive puich puch Dative puch puich

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an puch na puich Genitive an phuich na bpuch Dative leis an bpuch don phuch leis na puich

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
puch	phuch	bpuch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “puch”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “puch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pux/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *puxъ.

Noun

puch m inan (diminutive puszek)

1. down, fluff (soft, immature feathers)
2. snow

Declension

Declension of puch

	singular	plural
nominative	puch	puchy
genitive	puchu	puchów
dative	puchowi	puchom
accusative	puch	puchy
instrumental	puchem	puchami
locative	puchu	puchach
vocative	puchu	puchy

Related terms

• (adjectives) puchaty, puchowy, puszysty

Etymology 2

Noun

puch

1. genitive plural of pucha

Further reading

• puch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
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