An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Puls

by Friedrich Kluge

Puls, masculine, ‘pulse,’ from the equivalent late Middle High German puls, masculine and feminine; Latin pulsus (akin to pulsare, ‘to beat’), ‘beat’ (of the pulse), is shown by Dutch pols, English pulse, French pouls, Italian polso, &c., to be a common term in medicine in the Middle Ages,