puy
Translingual
Symbol
puy
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Purisimeño terms
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French puy. Doublet of podium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pwiː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Noun
puy (plural puys)
- Any of several cone-shaped hills in the Auvergne, France that are the remains of extinct volcanos.
- (geology) Any similar conical structure of volcanic material.
Further reading
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French puy, from Old French puy (“hill, height”), pui, from Latin podium. Its current use as a regionalism referring to certain geographic features may be taken at least in part from Franco-Provençal; cf. also Occitan puèg and Catalan puig. In Old French, it had a somewhat different or more varied set of meanings (cf. also the feminine puie, puye, poye (“balustrade”), whence English pew through Anglo-Norman), later coming to be applied to mountains and hills especially in the Auvergne region and Massif Central, the remains of extinct volcanoes. Doublet of the later borrowing podium.
Pronunciation
Noun
puy m (plural puys)
Further reading
- “puy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- puy on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Highland Popoluca
Etymology
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Noun
puy
Derived terms
- puycho̱goy
- puymɨ
References
- Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 99