pūt

See also: Appendix:Variations of "put"

Latvian

Etymology

From 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

  • IPA(key): [pūːt]

Verb

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

  1. to rot

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • aizpūt
  • appūt
  • iepūt
  • izpūt
  • nopūt
  • papūt
  • sapūt

Verb

pūt

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

References

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