different between pry vs puy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English pryen, prien (“to look closely, peer into, pry, spy”), from Old English *pr?wan, *pr?owian (“to look narrowly, to squint at”), attested by Old English bepr?wan, bepr?wan (“to wink”). Akin to Old English *pr?owot (“closing of the eyes”), attested only in combination, compare pr?owthw?l (“blink or twinkling of an eye, moment”), Old English princ (“a wink”). More at prink.

Verb

pry (third-person singular simple present pries, present participle prying, simple past and past participle pried)

1. (intransitive) To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy.
2. (intransitive) To keep asking about something that does not concern one.
3. (intransitive) To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public).

Translations

Noun

pry (plural pries)

1. The act of prying.
2. An excessively inquisitive person.

Translations

Etymology 2

1800, back-formation from prize ("lever"), construed as a plural noun or as a 3rd-person singular verb.

Noun

pry (plural pries)

1. A lever.
2. Leverage.

Translations

Verb

pry (third-person singular simple present pries, present participle prying, simple past and past participle pried)

1. To use leverage to open or widen.

   Synonyms: prise (British English), prize

Translations

Anagrams

• pyr-

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English preien.

Verb

pry

1. to pray

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French puy. Doublet of podium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwi?/

Noun

puy (plural puys)

1. Any of several cone-shaped hills in the Auvergne, France that are the remains of extinct volcanos
2. (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): /p?i/
• Homophones: puis, puits

Noun

puy m (plural puys)

1. (geology, regional) mountain, hill

   Synonym: montagne

Further reading

• “puy” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• puy on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

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Etymology

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Noun

puy

1. foot

Derived terms

• puycho?goy
• puym?

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