quiens

Corruption of tiens.

quiens

1. (Quebec, colloquial) tiens
   • 1970, Gabrielle Roy, chapter III, in Bonheur d'occasion‎^[1], Beauchemin, page 40:

     —Ben quiens, fit-il, c'est encore pour sauver la démocratie.

     "Well," he said, "it's to save democracy again."

• enquis, équins, niques, niqués, quines, quinés, sequin, squine

Present active participle of queō (“can, be able to”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷi.ẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷiː.ens]

quiēns (genitive queuntis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. (being) able to
   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.5:

     Isto quoque fortunae naufragio, Psyche, perterrita nec indipisci iam maritum volatilem quiens, tota spe salutis deposita, sic ipsa suas cogitationes consuluit: ...

     With this "shipwreck" of bad luck, Psyche, terrified and hopeless as she was, not being able to contact her flying husband anymore, started holding these thoughts: ...

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.