Description:

The term 'puwat' means a scale like a reptile's scale. It also refers to scale-like things, like tiles or especially shingles. As a modfier it refers to anything arranged in an overlapping arrangement like scales - e.g. 'naz puwatys pattat', 'scalloped potatoes'.

As a verb, 'puwat' is a skurun verb meaning to arrange in a scaled pattern, with an ergative arranger and an absolutive thing arranged.