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Hey, I'll let you know that I'm a judgmental asshole and I happen to be french, but I don't hate the world, only the parts that aren't french
Tiens tiens tiens well I happen to be French as well and I have already judged you (I hate you because you probably are on the wrong side of the chocolatine/pain au chocolat debate)
And this is the moment I realized that German "tja" ("well") probably comes from French "tiens" even though I've had five years of French in school.
Unlikely as many Germanic languages have it, with similar meanings. It's a variant of "ja", yes. Add a bit of laconicy and you can make "Well." a sentence in itself.