puca

== Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈput͡sa/ Rhymes: -ut͡sa Syllabification: pu‧ca === Adjective === puca (accusative singular pucan, plural pucaj, accusative plural pucajn) (literary) tacky Garbhan Macaoidh, "Ho, tempoj! Ho, moroj!", Monato: 2000, Viktor Sapoĵnikov, translator, "Resurekto: Fragmento el la romano de Lev Tolstoj", La ondo de Esperanto: 2013, Jorge Camacho, "Carlo Minnaja", En la profundo: ==== Synonyms ==== kiĉa === Further reading === “puca”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN “puca”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026 == Irish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpˠʊkə/ === Noun === puca m (genitive singular puca, nominative plural pucaí) Cois Fharraige form of paca ==== Declension ==== === Mutation === === Further reading === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “puca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *pūkō, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell, blow”). Cognate with Old Norse púki (dialectal Swedish puke (“devil”)). Compare also Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle Dutch spooc (“apparition, ghost”) (Dutch spook), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”) (German Spuk). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpuː.kɑ/ === Noun === pūca m goblin a mischievous spirit ==== Declension ==== Weak: ==== Related terms ==== pūcel ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: pouke, ppoke, powke, pukeEnglish: puck, Puck>? English: pug →? Cornish: bocka→ English: bucca → Welsh: pwca == Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology 1 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /pût͡sa/ ==== Noun ==== pȕca f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ца) (Kajkavian) girl Synonyms: cȕra, djèvōjka ===== Declension ===== ==== Further reading ==== “puca”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026 === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== puca (Cyrillic spelling пуца) third-person singular present of pucati