puits
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puits (plural puits)
- Alternative form of puit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:puits.
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puits
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French, from Old French puis, puiz, from Latin puteus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”). The t was added back in Middle French in order to reflect the Latin spelling and distinguish from the verb/adverb puis.
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puits m (plural puits)
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Further reading edit
- “puits”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.