different between jamaican vs patois

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

jamaican m (definite singular jamaicanen, indefinite plural jamaicanar, definite plural jamaicanane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by jamaicanar

Romanian

Etymology

From French jamaïquain

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.maj?kan/

Noun

jamaican m (plural jamaicani, feminine equivalent jamaican?)

1. Jamaican

Adjective

jamaican m or n (feminine singular jamaican?, masculine plural jamaicani, feminine and neuter plural jamaicane)

1. Jamaican

Swedish

Etymology

Jamaica +? -an

Noun

jamaican c

1. a Jamaican (person of Jamaican descent)

Declension

Related terms

• jamaicansk

English

Etymology

1635, from French patois (“regional dialect or language”).

Pronunciation

Singular

• (US) enPR: p??twä', pä?twä', IPA^(key): /?pæ?tw?/, /?p??tw?/
• Hyphenation: pat?ois

Plural

• (US) enPR: p??twäz', p??twä', pä?twäz', pä?twä', IPA^(key): /?pæ?tw?z/, /?pæ?tw?/, /?p??tw?z/, /?p??tw?/
• Hyphenation: pat?ois

Noun

patois (countable and uncountable, plural patois)

1. A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
2. Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
3. Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
4. (Jamaican) Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also has influences from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
5. Jargon or cant.

Synonyms

• (Jamaican creole language): Jamaican, Patwa

Translations

Anagrams

• POSITA, patios, spatio-, taipos

French

Etymology

From Middle French patois (“local dialect”), from Old French patois (“incomprehensible speech, rude language”), alteration (due to influence of the suffix -ois in words relating to nationalities and languages) of earlier *patoi, a deverbal of patoier (“to gesticulate, handle clumsily, paw”), from pate (“paw”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *pat-, *paþa- (“to walk, tread, go, step”), of uncertain origin and relation. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-/*(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of *pent-/*pat- (“path; to go”). Cognate with Dutch pat, Low German pedden (“to step, tread”). Related to pad, path.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.twa/

Noun

patois m (plural patois)

1. patois (French dialect)
2. patois (any regional dialect)
3. (Louisiana) saying, maxim, proverb, adage

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “patois” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• optais, posait, postai

Italian

Etymology

From French patois.

Noun

patois m (invariable)

1. patois

Anagrams

• ospita, posati, postai, sopita, spiato

Further reading

• patois in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana