piet

See also: Piet, pięt, and Pięt

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From pie + -ot, with later forms remodelled after -et.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpʌɪət/

Noun

piet (plural piets)

  1. (now Ireland, UK regional) The magpie.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes [], book II, London: [] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount [], →OCLC:
      We teach Blacke-birds, Starlins, Ravens, Piots, and Parots to chat [].
    • 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 446:
      Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are.

See also

  • piet-my-vrou (etymologically unrelated, coincidentally also a bird!)

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin pes, pedem.

Noun

piet m (plural pietz)

  1. (anatomy) foot

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

piet m (plural pieten, diminutive pietje n)

  1. An important person with a high position.
  2. Synonym of Zwarte Piet.
  3. A canary.
  4. (Netherlands, chiefly diminutive and in the plural diminutive) A louse.
  5. (Belgium, childish, slang or slightly vulgar) A penis.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Finnish

Noun

piet

  1. nominative plural of piki

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

piet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of piō

Middle French

Noun

piet m (plural piets)

  1. Alternative form of pied
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