puit

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pjuːt/
  • Rhymes: -uːt

Etymology 1

French puits (well)

Alternative forms

Noun

puit (plural puits)

  1. (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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

puit (plural puits)

  1. 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.

Anagrams

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/
  • (file)

Noun

puit m (plural puiten, diminutive puitje n)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) A frog

Synonyms

Derived terms

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

puit (genitive puidu, partitive puitu)

  1. wood

Declension

Declension of puit (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
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

Verb

puit

  1. second-person singular present/past indicative of puida

Verb

puit

  1. second-person singular past indicative of pukea

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