puls
Middle English
/ˈpuls/
noun
Definitions
- Legumes or their seeds.
- (rare) A legume.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French pouls derived from Latin puls (porridge, porridge of spelt, meal) derived from Ancient Greek πόλτος (porridge) derived from Proto-Indo-European *pel (flour, dust, drive, strike, thrust).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pel
Gloss
flour, dust, drive, strike, thrust
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
粉
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- poltophagy English
- pulmentarium Latin
- puls Latin
- pulsus Latin
- pultem Latin
- poltaceo Italian
- πόλτος Ancient Greek
- *pel Proto-Indo-European
- *pel- Proto-Indo-European
- pouls Old French