Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them; the qualitative nature of this beat. · The rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health. · A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs. · The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat.
From Late Middle English pulse, Middle English pous, pouse (“regular beat of arteries, pulse; heartbeat; place on the body where a pulse is detectable; beat (of a musical instrument); energy, vitality”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman puls, pous, pus, and Middle French pouls, poulz, pous [and other forms], Old French pous, pulz (“regular beat of arteries; place on the body where a pulse is detectable”) (modern French pouls), and from their etymon Latin pulsus (“beat, impulse, pulse, stroke; regular beat of arteries or the heart”), from pellō (“to drive, impel, propel, push; to banish, eject, expel; to set in motion; to strike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to beat, strike; to drive; to push, thrust”)) + -sus (a variant of -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs)).
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- Root classification mention*pel- (beat)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionpulseenm
- Inherited-form mentionpousenm
- Derivation mentionpoulsfrm
- Derivation mentionpousfro
- Cognate mentionpoulsfr
- Derivation mentionpulsusla · beat, impulse, pulse, stroke; regular beat of arteries or the heart
- Derivation mention*pel-ine-pro · to beat, strike; to drive; to push, thrust
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