pilu

pilu (plural not attested)

1. (India, Pakistan) Alternative form of peeloo (“kind of tree”).

• Puli, puli

From Proto-Finnic *pilu. Cognate with Votic pilu (“slit”) and Veps pilu (“gap, crack”). Possibly related to Finnish pillu (“vulva, vagina”).

pilu (genitive pilu, partitive pilu)

1. slit, slot

• pilu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Proto-Inuit *pIlu- (“leaf, bilberry shrub”), from Proto-Eskimo *pǝɫu- (“leaf”).

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /pilu/, [pɪ.lʊ]

pilu

1. leaf

• piloqut, pilutaq

pilu

1. grief
2. sadness

pilu

1. first-person singular present indicative of pilēt

Onomatopoeic.

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.lu/
• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.lu/

pilu

1. (Kuyavia, Near Masovian, often repeated) used to call geese

   Synonyms: piluchny, pilusie

   Coordinate term: a hula

• Józef Bliziński (1860) “pilu”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 628
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “pilu”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 275
• Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “pilu”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 372

From Latin pilus.

pilu

1. hair

From Latin pilus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.lu/ (standard)
• Hyphenation: pì‧lu

pilu m (plural pila)

1. A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
2. (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.

   I pila nterni si tròvanu nnô stilu dû ciuri dû gigghiu larunchiu giallu

   Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily.

3. Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
4. (zoology) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
5. (vulgar, singular only) Hair of the genitals.

   O cû pilu o senza pilu, rapi i cosci ca tâ nfilu.

   Either with hair or without hair, open your thighs so I will fuck you.

6. (vulgar, metonymic, singular only) A sexual partner, especially an occasional and unstable one; the reference is to the area of the genitals, covered with hair (regardless of their actual presence or not).

   (vulgar, by extension) A sexual intercourse

   Mi nni vaju a pilu

   I am going to pick up somebody.

   A mìa mi piaci u pilu

   I like to fuck.

7. (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

• → Italian: pilu, pilo, pelo

Related to Estonian pilu.

pilu

1. gap, crack, opening

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “щель”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈpilu/, [ˈpʲiɫu]
• Rhymes: -ilu
• Hyphenation: pi‧lu

pilu

1. gap, crack, opening
2. embroidery

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “pilu”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn