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Clipping of English Putoh.

put

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Putoh.

From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Low German paten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).

put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past **put, past participle **put or (UK dialectal) putten)

  1. To physically place (sth or sb swh).
    Synonym: locate
    She put her books on the table.
    The police put him in a cell.
    They put the new motorway right through the national park.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
  2. To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
    The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
    I put £100 on the winning horse.
    Don't put the blame on me.
    What answer did you put for question 3?
    to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
    That seems like a bad idea put against the restrictions we're working under.
  3. To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
  4. To express (something in a certain manner).
    When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
    To put it bluntly, he's an idiot.
    To put it simply, we can't afford it.
    • 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter:
      All this is ingeniously and ably put.
  5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
    I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.
    to put a question; to put a case
    • 1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book
      Put the perceptions and you put the mind.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.
  6. To set as a calculation or estimate.
    They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.
  7. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
    • 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
  8. (finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
    He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
  9. (especially athletics) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
    He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.
  10. To play a card or a hand in the game called "put".
  11. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
  1. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
  1. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.[3]

The verb "put" is unusual in that most senses require an adverbial for completion of the idea. For example, you cannot just "put a book", you must "put a book on the table", "put a book in the wastebin", etc.

to place something somewhere — see also situate

to bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition

to express something in a certain manner

finance: to exercise a put option

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put (countable and uncountable, plural puts)

  1. (business, finance) Ellipsis of put option (“right to sell something at a predetermined price”)
    He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
    • c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange
      A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
  2. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
    the put of a ball
  3. (uncountable) An old card game.
    • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
      Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.

Unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).

put (plural puts)

  1. (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
    • 1733, James Bramston, The Man of Taste:
      Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,
      And of lost hospitality complain.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 244:
      The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
      The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.
    • 1870, Frederic Harrison, “The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair,”, in Fortnightly Review:
      Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!

From Old French pute.

put (plural puts)

  1. (obsolete) A prostitute.

  2. ^ Hurd, Seth P. (1847), “Put”, in “False Pronunciation”, in A Grammatical Corrector; or, A Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech‎[1], Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co, →OCLC, page 87.

  3. ^ Kurath, Hans; McDavid, Raven I., Jr. (1961), The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States: based upon the collections of the linguistic atlas of the Eastern United States‎[2], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 5.6, page 147.

  4. ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881), “Put”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.

From Dutch put, from Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.

put (plural putte)

  1. well; pit

put

  1. inflection of pudir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

From Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti (“a well”), borrowed from Latin puteus.

put m (plural putten, diminutive putje n)

  1. pit, well
  2. drain

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

put

  1. inflection of putten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Onomatopoeic

put

  1. (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.

put

  1. third-person singular past historic of pouvoir

put

  1. (usually repeated several times) chook (call used to attract chickens)

put

  1. alternative spelling of putr

put

  1. smoke

put

  1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of putēt
  2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of putēt
  3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of putēt

put

  1. inflection of puți:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Borrowed from Scots put (“push”). Ultimately from the root of English put.

put (past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)

  1. push, shove
  2. jostle
  3. press

Borrowed from Scots pout, from Middle English pulet (“a pullet”).

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

  1. young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”), see also Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”).

put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)

  1. (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
  2. corpulent person; any bulging thing
  3. shovelful, sod, spadeful
  4. (medicine) bruised swelling

Mutation of put

radical lenition
put phut

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.

pȗt m inan (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

  1. road
    put za Sarajevo ― road to Sarajevo
    Gd(j)e vodi ovaj put? ― Where does this road lead?
  2. way
    ovim putem ― this way
    ići pravim putem ― to go the right way
    vodeni put ― waterway
    ići svojim putem ― to go one's own way
    stati nekome na put ― to stand in somebody's way
    najkraći put do bolnice ― the shortest way to the hospital
    na pola puta do škole ― halfway to the school
    Ml(ij)ečni put ― Milky Way
    Put do srca tvog ― The Way to your Heart (song by Vlado Georgiev)
    Teret je na putu. ― The cargo is on the way.
    Miči mi se s puta! ― Get out of my way!
  3. path
    krčiti put ― to clear a path
    put do usp(j)eha ― the path to success
  4. trip, journey, travel
    ići na put ― to go on a trip
    biti na putu ― to be on a trip
    put oko sv(ij)eta ― a trip around the world
    poslovni put ― a business trip
  5. (figurative and idiomatic senses) way, method, means
    sudskim putem ― by legal means; through court order
    službenim/zvaničnim putem ― through official channels

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plъtь.

pȕt f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏т)

  1. complexion, skin hue, tan
    sv(ij)etla put ― fair complexion/tan
    tamna put ― dark complexion/tan
    crna put ― black complexion/tan
  2. body as a totality of physical properties and sensitivities
    mlada put ― a young body
    gladna put ― a hungry body

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т) [_with_ genitive]

  1. to, toward
    put Sarajeva ― toward Sarajevo
    put škole ― to school
    Vozimo se put sela. ― We are driving toward the village.
    Krenuo sam put grada. ― I went toward the city.

From pȗt (“road, path, way”).

pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)

  1. time (with adjectives, ordinals and demonstratives indicating order in the sequence of actions or occurrences)
    prvi put ― the first time, for the first time
    drugi put ― the second time, for the second time; another time
    ovaj put ― this time
    sljedeći/sledeći put ― the next time
    posljednji/poslednji put ― the last time
    po stoti put ― for the hundredth time
    svaki put ― every time

put m (plural puts)

  1. (Mexico) papaya

From English foot.

put

  1. foot

From Persian بت (“idol”), from Middle Persian bwt' (“Buddha, idol”), ultimately from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha).

put (definite accusative putu, plural putlar)

  1. idol (object or thing of spiritual worship)