puit

Meaning

a frog

Synonyms

kikker

🐸

kikvors

🐸

vors

🐸

Translations

dif'daê

granota

🐸

Frosch

🐸

wátrachos

grenouille

🐸

rana

🐸

rana

🐸

rã

rana

🐸

kurbağa

🐸

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pœy̯t/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch: puut

Inherited from Old Dutch: pūt

Cognate with English: pod

Cognate with Swedish: puta

Cognate with French: bouder

In summary

From Middle Dutch puut (“frog”), from Old Dutch pūt, from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”). Compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), pout (“a kind of fish”), Swedish puta (“to pout”). Akin to French bouder.