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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

Highland Popoluca

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

English

Etymology

From Old French poi (“small hill”), from Latin podium.

Noun

poy (plural poys)

1. A support structure.
2. A balancing pole used by tightrope walkers.
3. A long pole, normally with a hook, used to push barges upstream.

Related terms

• teapoy

Anagrams

• PYO, Pyo, YOP, pyo-, yop

Middle French

Etymology

Old French poi

Adverb

poy

1. little; not much; not a lot

Related terms

• poy plus poy moins

Descendants

• French: peu