piet

See also: Piet, pięt, and Pięt

English

Alternative forms

• piot, pyet, pyot

Etymology

From pie +‎ -ot, with later forms remodelled after -et. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “what -ot?”)

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

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Noun

piet m (plural pieten, diminutive pietje n)

1. VIP, important person

   Synonym: pief

2. Synonym of Zwarte Piet
3. canary

   Synonym: kanariepiet

4. (Netherlands, chiefly diminutive or plural diminutive) louse
5. (Belgium, childish, slang or slightly vulgar) penis

Derived terms

• pietje-precies (see list at pietje)
• piet snot

Finnish

Noun

piet

1. nominative plural of piki

Anagrams

• peti

Latin

Verb

piet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of piō

Middle French

Noun

piet m (plural piets)

1. Alternative form of pied