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Another origin of pulse

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pel-‘to drive, strike, thrust’uncertain
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pelnō‘to approach’uncertain
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpellō‘to drive, impel, propel, push’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpulsō‘to push’frequentative of pellō
5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpulsārepresent active infinitive of pulsō
6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pulse‘to pulse, throb’
7. Englishtodaypulse

Another origin of pulse

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pel-‘dust’uncertain
2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEπόλτοςpóltos‘porridge made from flour’uncertain
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpuls‘meal’uncertain
4. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400pusuncertain
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pols
6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500puls‘seeds of a leguminous plant used as food’
7. Englishtodaypulse

From Middle English puls (‘(collectively) seeds of a leguminous plant used as food; leguminous plants collectively; a species of leguminous plant’), Early Middle English pols (in compounds), possibly from Anglo-Norman pus, puz, Middle French pouls, pols, pous, and Old French pous, pou (‘gruel, mash, porridge’) (perhaps in the sense of a gruel made from pulses), or directly from their etymon Latin puls (‘meal (coarse-ground edible part of various grains); porridge’), probably from Ancient Greek πόλτος (póltos, “porridge made from flour”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (‘dust; flour’) (perhaps by extension from *pel- (‘to beat, strike; to drive; to push, thrust’), in the sense of something beaten).