different between puits vs suits

English

Etymology

French puits (“well”)

Pronunciation

Noun

1. plural of puit

Anagrams

• sit up, sit-up, situp

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French puis, from Latin puteus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”). The t was added back in Middle French to reflect the original Latin spelling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i/
• Homophones: puis, puy

Noun

puits m (plural puits)

1. well, shaft

Derived terms

• puiser
• puits artésien
• puits de pétrole
• puits de science
• puits sans fond

Further reading

• “puits” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?ts/, /sju?ts/

Noun

suits

1. plural of suit

Verb

suits

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of suit

Anagrams

• Situs, Tsuis, situs, suist

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *suiccu. Cognate to Votic suisu, Finnish suitsuke (“incense”), suitsu (“smoke”), Karelian šuittša (“fog”) and Võro tsuits.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sui?ts/
• Hyphenation: suits

Noun

suits (genitive suitsu, partitive suitsu)

1. smoke
   1. The floating mixture of gases, air, and particulates given off by the combustion or smoldering of something.

   2. household, farmstead, family

   3. cigarette, smoke

Declension

Synonyms

• (smoke): toss, tomu, vine, vina, ving, karm
• (household): talu, talumajapidamine, talukoht, koht, maja, majapidamine, pere
• (cigarette): sigaret, pabeross, pläru, tobi

Derived terms

References

• suits” in Sõnaveeb