puch

puch

Chuukese

Adjective

puch

1. foolish

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Irish

Noun

puch m (genitive singular puich, nominative plural puich)

1. wasp

   Synonym: foiche

Declension

Declension of puch

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative puch puich Vocative a phuich a phucha Genitive puich puch Dative puch puich

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an puch na puich Genitive an phuich na bpuch Dative leis an bpuch don phuch leis na puich

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
puch	phuch	bpuch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “puch”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “puch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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K'iche'

Adverb

puch

1. even though
2. also, too

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Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *puxъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pausas, from Proto-Indo-European *powsos, from *pews- (“to swell, to blow”).

Noun

puch m

1. exhalation, fume, vapor

   Synonyms: duch, dym, wilkość

   • 15th century, Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, published 1874-1891, page 67:

     Quamdiu homo est in infirmitate, plenus est malis humoribus, pvchv, propter quos non habet appetitum comedendi

     Quamdiu homo est in infirmitate, plenus est malis humoribus, puchu, propter quos non habet appetitum comedendi

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Related terms

adjective

• puchlny

 

noun

• puzdro

 

verb

• opuchać impf

 

References

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “puch”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Further reading

• M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Puch on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pux/

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• Rhymes: -ux
• Syllabification: puch

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *puxъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pewḱs- (“fluff, tail”). Related to fuks.

Noun

puch m inan (diminutive puszek)

1. down, fluff (soft, immature feathers)
2. snow

Declension

Declension of puch

	singular	plural
nominative	puch	puchy
genitive	puchu	puchów
dative	puchowi	puchom
accusative	puch	puchy
instrumental	puchem	puchami
locative	puchu	puchach
vocative	puchu	puchy

Derived terms

adjectives

• puchaty
• puchowaty
• puchowy
• puszysty

 

nouns

• puchowiec
• puchówka
• puszystość

 

verb

• puszyć impf

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

puch

1. genitive plural of pucha

Further reading

• puch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• puch in Polish dictionaries at PWN