pui

See also: pu'i

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ui

Verb

pui

  1. Third person singular indicative present form of puida.
  2. Third person singular indicative past form of puida.
  3. Indicative present connegative form of puida.
  4. Second person singular imperative present form of puida.
  5. Second person singular imperative present connegative form of puida.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin puteus.

Noun

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

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

Descendants

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [puj]

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

Verb

pui

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

Sarasira

Noun

pui

  1. water

References

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