can, to be able to · may (of a choice) · to be possible; may, could be
çekim: geçmiş pu · ortaç pu · şimdiki peut · ulaç pouvant
köken: Inherited from Middle French povoir, from Old French povoir, pooir, from earlier Old French poeir, podeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, regularization of Latin posse. The /-v-/ was eventually added, after the loss of the intervocalic dental, to break hiatus. The archaic 1SG present indicative puis is from a Vulgar Latin *posseō (rather than possō), for which cf. Old Catalan puix. Cognates See also…
aile: advienne que pourra, autant que faire se peut, ne plus pouvoir voir en peinture, n'en plus pouvoir, n'en pouvoir mais, on ne peut plus, quand on veut, on peut, qui peut le plus peut le moins, sauve qui peut, tu peux causer
Je peux venir ce soir.
On est des étoiles dans ce ciel bleu clair et on mettra les voiles quand on pourra le faire.
köken: From an Oghur language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries, from Proto-Turkic *erk (“strength, might, will, power”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Italic *potis Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ēō Proto-Italic *potēō Proto-Italic *potēnts Latin potēns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin potentialbor. Polish potencja Learned borrowing from Latin potentia. First attested in 1554.