poleur

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Walloon

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin potēre, regularization of Latin posse. Once the intervocalic /-t-/ lenited to zero, an /-l-/ was added to break hiatus, likely by analogy with voleur (to want). Compare the /-v-/ added to the French cognate pouvoir (< early medieval poeir).

Pronunciation

Verb

poleur

  1. to can, be able to

Conjugation