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puis

  1. inessive plural of puu

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *postius, a comparative of Latin post (“after”).[1] Compare Portuguese pois, Spanish pues, Italian poi, and Romanian apoi (archaic păi).

puis

  1. then; after; next

puis

  1. and

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *posseō, alteration of earlier possō, a regularization of Latin possum. Compare Old Catalan puix.

puis

  1. (archaic or literary) first-person singular present indicative of pouvoir

    • 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine:

      —Dans tous les cas, ce que je puis dire, c’est que, s’il a eu toutes ces idées, il n’en a rien marqué, même pour moi

      In any case, all I can say is that, if that is what he thought, he showed nothing of it, not even to me

    • 2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès, published 2012, page 24:

      —Monsieur, dit-il, je vous salue et vous serais obligé de m’indiquer si je puis être reçu par M. de Sartine.

      ‘Sir,’ he said, ‘I bid you good-day, and would be obliged if you could tell me whether I might be received by M. Sartine.’
  • Now generally used only in the highly formal inverted question form (puis-je "may I"). A common alternative is Est-ce que je peux or more simply in a colloquial context: Je peux or J'peux (pronounced /ʃpø/).
  1. ^ Picoche, Jacqueline with Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert

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puis f

  1. gust (of wind)

Onomatopoeic.

puis! puis!

  1. Puss! Puss! (call to cat)
  • puisín m (“pussy-cat; kitten”)

puis m sg

  1. vocative/genitive singular of pus (“(protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout; snout”)
Mutated forms of puis
radical lenition eclipsis
puis phuis bpuis

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From Old French pois, from Latin *postius, from post.

puis

  1. since; after (with respect to time)

    • c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:

      Oncques puis la mort de son frere, il n'y vint

      Never since the death of his brother has he gone there

    • 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 47:

      puis dist a l'enfant

      then he said to the child

From Old French puis, from Latin puteus.

puis m (plural puis)

  1. well (man-made hole from which water is drawn)
  • pus (informal, slang)

From Vulgar Latin *pos, from Classical Latin post (“after”).

puis

  1. of course

    Puode, puis, falar cun nós.

    (He/She) can, of course, talk with us.
  2. way to agree

puis

  1. because; for (by or for the cause that)
    Synonym: porque

    Me gusta l pan, puis creci cun el.

    I like (the) bread, because (I) grew up with it.

From Latin puteus.

puis oblique singular, m (oblique plural puis, nominative singular puis, nominative plural puis)

  1. well (place from which water is drawn)

    puis

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    puis

    1. second-person singular present indicative of puir