puy
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
puy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Pyu, YUP, yup
French
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /pɥi/
- Homophones: puis, puits
Noun
puy m (plural puys)
- (geology, regional) mountain, hill
- Synonym: montagne
Further reading
- “puy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- puy on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
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Noun
puy
- foot
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) (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 99