put

Meanings

Verb

• To place something somewhere.
• To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• To exercise a put option.
• To express something in a certain manner.
• To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport.
• To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• To attach or attribute; to assign.
• To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

Noun

• A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• An old card game.
• A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
• A prostitute.

Origin

• and potian, both from Proto-Germanic *putōną ("to stick, stab"), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- ("to shoot, sprout"), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द ("arrow"), Lithuanian budė, and budis. Compare also related Old English pȳtan ("to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)"). Cognate with Dutch poten ("to set, plant"), Danish putte ("to put"), Swedish putta, pötta, potta, Norwegian putte ("to set, put"), Norwegian pota ("to poke"), Icelandic pota ("to poke"), Dutch peuteren ("to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with").
• Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt.
• Old French pute.