puch

puch

See also: Puch

Chuukese

Adjective

puch

  1. foolish

Irish

Noun

puch m (genitive singular puich, nominative plural puich)

  1. alternative form of foiche (wasp)

Declension

Declension of puch (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative puch puich
vocative a phuich a phucha
genitive puich puch
dative puch puich
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an puch na puich
genitive an phuich na bpuch
dative leis an bpuch
don phuch
leis na puich

Mutation

Mutated forms of puch
radical lenition eclipsis
puch phuch bpuch

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • puch”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “puch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

K'iche'

Adverb

puch

  1. even though
  2. also, too

Old Polish

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *puxъ.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /pux/
    • IPA(key): (15th CE) /pux/

    Noun

    puch m animacy unattested

    1. (attested in Pomerania, Greater Poland) exhalation, fume, vapor
      Synonyms: duch, dym, wilkość
      • 1874-1891 [15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności[1], [2], [3], volume XXIV, Grochów, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kcynia, page 67:
        Quamdiu homo est in infirmitate, plenus est malis humoribus, pvchv, propter quos non habet appetitum comedendi
        [Quamdiu homo est in infirmitate, plenus est malis humoribus, puchu, propter quos non habet appetitum comedendi]
    adjective
    noun
    verb
    • opuchać impf

    References

    • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “puch”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

    Polish

    Pronunciation

     
    • IPA(key): /ˈpux/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ux
    • Syllabification: puch

    Etymology 1

      Inherited from Proto-Slavic *puxъ. Doublet of fuks.

      Noun

      puch m inan (diminutive puszek, related adjective puchowy)

      1. down, fluff (soft, immature feathers)
      2. snow
      Declension
      Derived terms
      adjectives
      verbs
      adverbs
      • puszysto
      • puszyście
      nouns

      Etymology 2

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Noun

      puch

      1. genitive plural of pucha

      Further reading