different between paks vs pays

English

Noun

paks

1. plural of pak

Anagrams

• pKas

Estonian

Etymology

Related to Finnish paksu.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ks

Adjective

paks (genitive paksu, partitive paksu)

1. fat

Declension

Veps

Etymology

Related to Estonian paks, Finnish paksu.

Adjective

paks

1. thick, dense
2. frequent
3. common

Inflection

Derived terms

• paksuta

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pe?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z

Verb

pays

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pay

Noun

pays

1. plural of pay

Anagrams

• APYs, AsPy, aspy, pyas, spay, yaps

French

Etymology

From Old French païs, from Late Latin p?g?nsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin p?gus (“countryside; district”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-. See related terms. Cognates include Italian paese. Borrowed into Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish as país.

See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman payis, Gallo peïs, Picard poaiyis, Bourguignon paiyis, Franco-Provençal payis, Occitan país, Corsican paese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.i/, /pe.i/

Noun

pays m (plural pays)

1. land, country, region, nation
2. (politics, geography) country

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: país

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French païs.

Alternative forms

• païs
• paÿs

Noun

pays m (plural pays)

1. land; country; region

Descendants

• French: pays

Norman

Etymology

From Old French païs, from Late Latin p?g?nsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin p?gus (“countryside; district”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pays m (plural pays)

1. (Jersey) country

Derived terms

• Les Pays Bas (“the Netherlands”)

Portuguese

Noun

pays m (plural payses)

1. Obsolete spelling of país

Noun

pays m

1. Obsolete spelling of pais

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pais/, [?pai?s]

Noun

pays m pl

1. plural of pay