different between pays vs prays
pays
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /pe?z/
- Rhymes: -e?z
Verb
pays
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pay
Noun
pays
- 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)
- land, country, region, nation
- (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)
- 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)
- (Jersey) country
Derived terms
- Les Pays Bas (“the Netherlands”)
Portuguese
Noun
pays m (plural payses)
- Obsolete spelling of país
Noun
pays m
- Obsolete spelling of pais
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pais/, [?pai?s]
Noun
pays m pl
- plural of pay
pays From the web:
- what pays $15 an hour
- what pays dividends
- what pays $100 an hour
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- what pays the highest interest rate
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- what pays the highest dividends
- what pays 40 an hour
prays
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?e?z/
- Homophones: praise, preys
- Rhymes: -e?z
Verb
prays
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pray
Anagrams
- Sarpy, raspy, spary, spray
prays From the web:
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- what preys on hummingbirds
- what preys on tigers
- what preys on cicadas
- what preys on owls
- what preys on foxes
- what preys on eagles
- what preys on wolves
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