piau
See also: Piau
Aiwoo
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
References
- Paul Duchon (1904) Grammaire et Dictionnaire Du Patois Bourbonnais (canton De Vareness) (in French, Bourbonnais-Berrichon, and Poitevin-Saintongeais), page 90
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). |
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh pieu, from Old Welsh *piou, ultimately related to the source of pwy (“who”).
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 verb)
- 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?”)
- 2016, Simon Thomas, “Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs”, in Record of Proceedings (National Assembly for Wales):
- 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.
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| piau | biau | mhiau | phiau |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
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
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