piau

See also: Piau

Äiwoo

Verb

piau

1. to suck in (e.g. water through a straw)

References

• 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

Noun

piau f

1. skin

Champenois

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjo/

Noun

piau m

1. Alternative form of pé

Hokkien

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

Noun

piau m (plural piaus) (Limousin)

1. hair

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh pieu, from Old Welsh *piou (attested in piouboi), from *pi- (oblique case of pui (“who”)) and -wy, variant of yw (form of bod); compare Middle Cornish pew and Middle Breton bi(a)ou.

Pronunciation

• (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

piau (defective; invariable)

1. 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

• 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.

Derived terms

• taw piau hi (“mum's the word”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of piau

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
piau	biau	mhiau	phiau

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

Further reading

• 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