púki
Icelandic
/ˈpʰuːcɪ/
noun
Definitions
- devil
- puck, fairy spirit
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse púki (evil spirit, fairy spirit, demon, devil) inherited from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (a goblin, spook, imp, goblin).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*pūkô
Gloss
a goblin, spook, imp, goblin
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Puck English
- Pucklike English
- puck English
- puck-handling English
- puckhandler English
- puckish English
- puckle English
- pucklike English
- puckster English
- puckstopper English
- puckstopping English
- shufflepuck English
- Puck German
- *(s)pāug(')- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)pāuǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pūkô Proto-Germanic
- puck Swedish
- puca Old English
- pucel Old English
- pūca Old English
- puke Middle English
- púki Old Norse
- pokker Danish
- pūķis Latvian
- púca Old Irish
- pocke Middle Low German
- puke Old Swedish