puy

See also: púy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French puy. Doublet of podium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

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

le puy de Sancy

Etymology

Inherited 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)

1. (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

1. 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)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 99