puni

Derived from Latin pūniō (“I punish”), from poena (“punishment, penalty”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty, fine, bloodmoney”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂, from the root *kʷey- (“to pay”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuni/

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• Rhymes: -uni
• Syllabification: pu‧ni

puni (present punas, past punis, future punos, conditional punus, volitive punu)

1. to punish
   • 1990, H. C. Andersen, Knabino, kiu paŝis sur panon [The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf], translation of Pigen, som traadte paa Brødet by L. L. Zamenhof:

     Ŝi estis tiel malbona, oni devis ŝin dece puni!

     She was so bad, she had to be properly punished!

   • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 20:

     "Mi pensas pri la rakontoj kiuj parolas pri homoj en Hadeso - ke maljustulo devas esti punata tie. Eble oni antaŭe ridis pri tiaj rakontoj, sed nun la menso ekdubas, eble ili estas veraj."

     "I think about the stories which talk about people in Hades - that the unjust must be punished there. Perhaps one previously laughed about these stories, but now the mind begins to doubt, maybe they are true."

puni (feminine punie, masculine plural punis, feminine plural punies)

1. past participle of punir

• “puni”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

puni

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of punir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ni/

From Proto-Polynesian *puni (“prevent access by surrounding completely”). Cognate with Māori puni (“sheath”).

puni(stative)

1. surrounded, enclosed
2. controlled
3. (figurative) overcome (by emotion)

• hoʻopuni (“to surround”, verb)
• punihei (“ensnared”)

puni (stative)

1. deceived, deluded
2. to believe a lie

• hoʻopuni (“deceive”, verb)
• punipuni (“lie”, verb)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

puni

1. (stative) completed, terminated

puni

1. lap (complete circuit)
2. (boxing) round
3. (card games) hand (round of a card game)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

puni(transitive)

1. to be fond of, to be partial to
2. to desire, to covet

• hoʻopuni (“desire greatly”, verb)
• puni ʻai (“fond of eating”)

• puni in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

From Sanskrit पानीय (pānīya).

puni ?

1. water

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014), “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎^[1], pages 13-36

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.niː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.ni]

pūnī

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pūniō

• Hyphenation: pu‧ni

puni

1. inflection of punir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

puni

1. dull

puni (Cyrillic spelling пуни)

1. inflection of pun:
   1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
   2. definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
   3. definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

puni

1. romanization of 𐌐𐌖𐌍𐌉