Where does “puir” come from?

puir (Middle French) comes from Latin putiō — I stink.

puir (Middle French): to smell (bad); to stink

Definitions

  1. to smell (bad); to stink

Ancestry of “puir”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinputiōI stink
Every word from Latin putiō
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