piet

See also: Piet, pięt, and Pięt

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From pie +‎ -ot, with later forms remodelled after -et.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpʌɪət/

Noun

piet (plural piets)

  1. (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
  • piet-my-vrou (etymologically unrelated, coincidentally also a bird!)

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin pes, pedem.

Noun

piet m (plural pietz)

  1. (anatomy) foot

Dutch

Pronunciation
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Noun

piet m (plural pieten, diminutive pietje n)

  1. VIP, important person
    Synonym: pief
  2. Synonym of Zwarte Piet
  3. canary
    Synonym: kanariepiet
  4. (Netherlands, chiefly diminutive or plural diminutive) louse
  5. (Belgium, childish, slang or slightly vulgar) penis

Derived terms

Finnish

Noun

piet

  1. nominative plural of piki

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

piet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of piō

Middle French

Noun

piet m (plural piets)

  1. Alternative form of pied
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