pit
Gaelic (Scots)
noun
Definitions
- female external genitalia, vulva
- (vulgar) cunt, pussy
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish pit (female pudenda, hollow, pit) derived from Latin puteus (well, pit, trench, dungeon).
Origin
Latin
puteus
Gloss
well, pit, trench, dungeon
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
井
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- puteal English
- puteus Latin
- subputeāre Latin
- pozzo Italian
- pozo Spanish, Castilian
- *paw- Proto-Indo-European
- pått Swedish
- pit Irish
- puis Old French
- pou Catalan, Valencian
- puț Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- pfuzzi Old High German
- puteo Ido
- pit Old Irish
- *puti gmw-pro
- poço Old Portuguese
- puts Aromanian
- potz Occitan
- pozu Asturian
- poç Friulian