poe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "poe"

English

Etymology 1

Noun

poe (plural poes)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of po (“chamberpot”)
   • 1984, Frank L. Mills, Simon B. Jones-Hendrickson, Bertram Eugene, Christmas Sports in St. Kitts-Nevis: Our Neglected Cultural Tradition:

     He looked for his enamel chamber pot — or poe in local parlance — whose better days had long gone: the handle was broken, there were a few rusted holes, and it was covered with a myriad of spalls. The poison of the fish soon had him vomiting in the poe.

Etymology 2

Derived from the Hokkien 桮 (“poe”)

Noun

poe

1. moon blocks.

   poe divination

Anagrams

• 'ope, EPO, EoP, PEO, ope, peo.

Estonian

Noun

poe

1. genitive singular of pood

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *poe (“pearl”) (compare with Tahitian poe (“pearl”))

Verb

poe

1. (stative) round, rounded

Derived terms

• hoʻopoe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boy.

Noun

poe

1. boy

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English buoy.

Noun

poe

1. buoy

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.e/
• Rhymes: -ɔe
• Hyphenation: pò‧e

Noun

poe f

1. plural of poa

Old French

Alternative forms

• pode (archaic)
• powe, powee, poue, pouhe, pouwe
• pote (alternate evolution from *pauta)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pauta. Attested from the early twelfth century onward.

Pronunciation

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔðə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈpuə/

(central pronunciations)

Noun

poe oblique singular, f (oblique plural poes, nominative singular poe, nominative plural poes)

1. paw
2. animal's foot
3. claw

Descendants

• → Middle Breton: pau
  • Breton: paô
• → Middle English: pawe, pauwe, powe
  • English: paw
  • Scots: paw
• → Middle Irish: pói

References

• “poe1”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
• Pope, Mildred Katherine (1934) From Latin to French with Especial Consideration of Anglo-Norman, Manchester: Manchester University Press, page 210
• powe_1 on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pauta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 75

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *poe (“pearl”) (compare with Hawaiian poe (“round”))

Noun

poe

1. pearl

References

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “poe” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.