puis

puis

Estonian

Noun

puis

1. inessive plural of puu

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɥi/

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• Homophones: puits, puy
• Rhymes: -ɥi

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

puis

1. then; after; next

Derived terms

• et puis quoi encore

Related terms

• depuis

Conjunction

puis

1. and

Verb

puis

1. (archaic or literary) first-person singular present indicative of pouvoir
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Tome I – FANTINE, Ebooks libres et gratuits, p. 135:

     —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 2012, p. 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.’

Usage notes

• 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/).

References

1. Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert

Further reading

• “puis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pˠɪʃ/

Etymology 1

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Noun

puis f

1. gust (of wind)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

puis! puis!

1. Puss! Puss! (call to cat)

Derived terms

• puisín m (“pussy-cat; kitten”)

Noun

puis m sg

1. vocative/genitive singular of pus (“(protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout; snout”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
puis	phuis	bpuis
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “puis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Middle French

Etymology 1

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

Preposition

puis

1. since; after (with respect to time)
   • circa 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

Etymology 2

From Old French puis, from Latin puteus.

Noun

puis m (plural puis)

1. well (man-made hole from which water is drawn)

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin puteus.

Noun

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

1. well (place from which water is drawn)

Descendants

• French: puits