puit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pjuːt/
- Rhymes: -uːt
Alternative forms
Noun
puit (plural puits)
- (obsolete) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
- 1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, page 37:
- Further on is a puit or pit, bored in the last century, in search of salt; and then smaller reservoirs, with the blasting holes.
- 1911, Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home, page 211:
- And then a quarter of an hour later she would say, whilst explaining to a French party: “ There were 800 English and 200 French found at the bottom of the puit at the finish of that terrible day, mesdames et messieurs."
- 1998, Karl Smith, The Atlas Mountains, page 105:
- Cross the ravine, and a further 10 mins. across the plain see trees on the R. These trees mark the site of the puit ( well ) at El Mersse.
Etymology 2
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Noun
puit (plural puits)
- An insectivorous shore bird, the brown-headed gull.
- 1895, Peter Henry Emerson, Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, page 308:
- But these pirates are always successful, as are the rats, who steal at dead of night upon the eggs, devouring them; for your rat is a deadly enemy to the puit, and many another bird besides.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch puut (“frog”), from Old Dutch pūt, from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”). Compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), pout, Swedish puta (“to pout”). Akin to French bouder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pœy̯t/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
- puiten (verb)
- puitebloot (adjective)
Estonian
Etymology
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Declension
Declension of puit (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | puit | puidud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | puidu | ||
genitive | puitude | ||
partitive | puitu | puite puitusid | |
illative | puitu puidusse |
puitudesse puidesse | |
inessive | puidus | puitudes puides | |
elative | puidust | puitudest puidest | |
allative | puidule | puitudele puidele | |
adessive | puidul | puitudel puidel | |
ablative | puidult | puitudelt puidelt | |
translative | puiduks | puitudeks puideks | |
terminative | puiduni | puitudeni | |
essive | puiduna | puitudena | |
abessive | puiduta | puitudeta | |
comitative | puiduga | puitudega |
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpui̯t/, [ˈpui̯t̪]
- Rhymes: -uit
- Syllabification(key): puit
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