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pui

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See also: pu'i

Aragonese

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Etymology

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

Noun

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pui m

  1. hill
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Dutch

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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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

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Further reading

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Finnish

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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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

Lombard

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Etymology

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From Latin pullus.

Noun

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pui

  1. chicken

Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin puteus.

Noun

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

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

Descendants

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  • French: puits

Portuguese

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Verb

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pui

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

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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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
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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative pui puiul pui puii
genitive-dative pui puiului pui puilor
vocative puiule puilor
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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pui

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

Sarasira

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Noun

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pui

  1. water

References

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

Tho

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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pui

  1. (Cuối Chăm) joyful