piau
See also: Piau
Aiwoo edit
Verb edit
piau
- to suck in (e.g. water through a straw)
References edit
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Bourbonnais-Berrichon edit
Noun edit
piau f[1]
References edit
- ^ 1904, Paul Duchon, Grammaire et Dictionnaire Du Patois Bourbonnais (canton De Vareness), page 90:
Hokkien edit
For pronunciation and definitions of piau – see 標 (“topmost branches of a tree; treetop; end; tip; peak; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 標). |
Occitan edit
Noun edit
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Welsh pieu, from Old Welsh *piou, ultimately related to the source of pwy (“who”).
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales, standard) IPA(key): /ˈpiː.aɨ̯/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈpiː.ɛ/, /ˈpiː.a/
- (South Wales, standard) IPA(key): /ˈpiː.ai̯/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈpiː.ɛ/
Verb edit
piau (defective verb)
- own, possess
- y dyn biau castell anferth
- the man who owns a huge castle
- Pwy sy biau’r llyfr ’ma?
- Whose book is this?
- (literally, “Who [is it] that owns this book?”)
- 2013 April 16, “Carchar: Cyngor Wrecsam yn awgrymu safleoedd”, in BBC Cymru Fyw[1]:
- Perchennog preifat sydd biau Parc Kingmoor a Llywodraeth Cymru sydd yn gyfrifol am Firestone.
- A private landlord owns Kingmoor Park and the Welsh Government is responsible for Firestone.
- 2016, Simon Thomas, “Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs”, in Record of Proceedings (National Assembly for Wales)[2]:
- Y strategaeth bwyd môr yr ydych newydd ei chrybwyll yn fanna—pwy biau’r strategaeth yma?
- The seafood strategy you’ve just alluded to—who actually owns that strategy?
Usage notes edit
- As with angen and eisiau, piau does not use linking yn with bod and has no stem, meaning it must be used with periphrasis.
- piau most often occurs in the soft-mutated form biau.
- piau is frequently used in relative clauses, where the auxiliary is sometimes omitted, as in the first example above.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
piau | biau | mhiau | phiau |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “piau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies