Borrowed fromFrenchpuy.Doublet ofpodium.
puy (pluralpuys)
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchpuy, fromOld Frenchpuy(“hill, height”),pui, fromLatinpodium. Its current use as a regionalism referring to certain geographic features may be taken at least in part fromFranco-Provençal; cf. alsoOccitanpuèg andCatalanpuig. In Old French, it had a somewhat different or more varied set of meanings (cf. also the femininepuie,puye,poye(“balustrade”), whence Englishpew through Anglo-Norman), later coming to be applied to mountains and hills especially in the Auvergne region and Massif Central, the remains of extinct volcanoes. Doublet of the later borrowingpodium.
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