pui

See also: -pui

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Puinave.

Symbol

pui

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Puinave.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Puinave terms

English

Etymology

From Hokkien 呸 (phùi, “to spit”), itself onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰu̯i˦˨]

Interjection

pui

1. (Singapore, Singlish) Interjection expressing strong disdain.

Aragonese

Etymology

Apocopated form of pueyo, from Latin podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion).

Noun

pui m

1. hill

Related terms

• pueyo
• puy

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch poye, from Old French poie, from Latin podia, plural of podium, from Ancient Greek πόδιον (pódion, “base”), a diminutive of πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of podium.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

pui f (plural puien, diminutive puitje n) (architecture)

1. facade, front of a building
2. large glass window frame (generally reaching from floor to ceiling) as part of the outer or inner walls of a building

Derived terms

• binnenpui
• glaspui
• schuifpui
• winkelpui

Further reading

• pui on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpui̯/, [ˈpui̯] (third-person indicative)
• IPA^(key): /ˈpui̯ˣ/, [ˈpui̯(ʔ)] (imperative, indicative connegative)
• Rhymes: -ui
• Syllabification^(key): pui
• Hyphenation^(key): pui

Verb

pui

1. inflection of puida:
   1. third-person singular present/past indicative
   2. present active indicative connegative
   3. second-person singular present imperative
   4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Kelantan Peranakan Hokkien

Etymology

From Hokkien 飯 / 饭 (pūiⁿ, “cooked rice”).

Noun

pui

1. rice

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin pullus.

Noun

pui

1. chicken

Mizo

Verb

pui (stem II puih)

1. to help, assist

Further reading

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “pui”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

Old French

Etymology

From Latin puteus.

Noun

pui oblique singular, m (oblique plural puis, nominative singular puis, nominative plural pui)

1. well (structure from which water can be drawn)

Descendants

• French: puits

Portuguese

Verb

pui

1. inflection of puir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Alternative forms

• пуй (pui) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puj/
• Rhymes: -uj
• Hyphenation: pui

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin pullus, probably through a Vulgar Latin root *pulleus, or alternatively formed from the plural of an original Romanian form *pul. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Compare Spanish pollo and Italian pollo.

Noun

pui m (plural pui)

1. chicken
2. chick
3. cub, youngling, nestling, whelp, young of an animal, or less commonly of people
4. darling, dear

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pui	puiul	pui	puii
genitive-dative	pui	puiului	pui	puilor
vocative	puiule		puilor

Derived terms

• puia
• puiandru
• puică
• puiet
• puișor

Related terms

• pulă

Descendants

• →? Hungarian: pulya

See also

• copil

Etymology 2

Verb

pui

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pune

Further reading

• “pui”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Sarasira

Noun

pui

1. water

References

• Susanne Holzknecht, The Markham languages of Papua New Guinea (1989), page 71

Tho

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *t-puːj, cognate with Vietnamese vui, Muong pui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puːj¹/

Adjective

pui

1. (Cuối Chăm) joyful