Where does “Puff” come from?

Puff (Hunsrik) comes from German Puff, from English puff, from Middle English puff, from Old English pyf — a blast of wind, puff.

Puff (Hunsrik): blast; pop

Definitions

  1. blast; pop

Ancestry of “Puff”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanPuffthud, wham; a kind of dice game, anterior to...
2EnglishpuffA sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath...
3Middle Englishpuff—
4Old Englishpyfa blast of wind, puff
Every word from Old English pyf →
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