puits
French
noun
Definitions
- well, shaft
Etymology
Inherited from Old French puis inherited from Latin puteus (well, pit, trench, dungeon) derived from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (strike).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*paw-
Gloss
strike
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- puteal English
- paveo Latin
- pavio Latin
- pudeo Latin
- puteus Latin
- repudium Latin
- subputeāre Latin
- pozzo Italian
- puisard French
- puiser French
- pozo Spanish, Castilian
- *paw- Proto-Indo-European
- poço Portuguese
- pått Swedish
- puis Old French
- pou Catalan, Valencian
- puț Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- pfuzzi Old High German
- puteo Ido
- pit Old Irish
- *puti gmw-pro
- poço Old Portuguese
- puts Aromanian
- potz Occitan
- pozu Asturian
- poç Friulian