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tuyau.

pipe

5 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/tɥi.jo/

  1. pipe

    masculine

  2. tube

    masculine

  3. insider tip

    masculine

  4. chimney pot

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French tuyau, from Old French tuel, tuial, tudel (“tube, pipe”), from Frankish *thūta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutaną (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Cognate with Old Saxon theuta (“pipe, water-channel”), Old High German watardioza (“water-opening, spout, nozzle”), Old English þēote (“pipe, channel”), Dutch tuit (“spout, nozzle”), Icelandic þjótandi (“the name of an artery”), Icelandic þjóta (“to rush, whistle”).

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