Middle French

Verb

puir

1. to smell (bad); to stink

Old French

Alternative forms

• puïr (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *putīre, from Classical Latin putēre, present active infinitive of puteō.

Verb

puir

1. to smell (bad); to stink

Descendants

• French: puer

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (puir)

Scots

Adjective

puir ‎(comparative mair puir, superlative maist puir)

1. poor

References

• Scots-English Dictionary on Scots Wikipedia