puir
See also: puír
Middle French
Etymology
Vulgar Latin *putio.
Verb
puir
- to smell (bad); to stink
Old French
Alternative forms
- puïr (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *putīre, from Classical Latin putēre, present active infinitive of puteō.
Verb
puir
- to smell (bad); to stink
Descendants
- French: puer
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (puir)
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English povre, from Old French povre, from Latin pauper.
Adjective
puir (comparative mair puir, superlative maist puir)
- poor
References
- Scots-English Dictionary on Scots Wikipedia