different between sais vs pais

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi (Hindustani), from Arabic ??????? (s??is, “stableman, groom”), from ????? (s?s, “to tend a horse”).

Alternative forms

• syce

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /sa?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

sais (plural saises)

1. (India) A groom, or servant with responsibility for the horses.
   • 1890, Flora Annie Webster Steel; Grace Gardiner, “The Duties of the Servants”, in The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook: Giving the Duties of Mistress and Servants, the General Management of the House and Practical Recipes for Cooking in all its Branches, Edinburgh: F. Murray, OCLC 228145908; reprinted Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 978-1-108-02193-7, page 68:

     THE DUTIES OF THE SAIS OR GROOM. […] Now, if the good house-mother's proudest boast is that not even "the cattle within her gate" fail to feel her kindly care, she will often find it necessary to take an active part in teaching the sais his duty, and seeing that the horses receive proper attention. […] The old plan of a sais and a grass-cutter to each horse is a thing of the past, and the number of saises or grooms should have reference merely to the amount of harnessing and out-work necessary during the day.
2. (Malaya, dated) usually syce: chauffeur, driver.

Etymology 2

Nonstandard spelling of says.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z

Verb

sais

1. Used to represent a nonstandard pronunciation of says.

Anagrams

• AISs, ASIS, ASIs, Assi, ISAs, Issa, SSIA, as is, as-is, is-as, issa

Aklanon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish seis.

Numeral

sais

1. six

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?/

Verb

sais

1. first/second-person singular present indicative of savoir

Anagrams

• Issa

Indonesian

Noun

sais

1. driver

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese seis.

Numeral

sais

1. six (6)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /saj?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sajs/, /saj?/

Verb

sais

1. second-person singular (tu) present indicative of sair

Noun

sais m

1. plural of sal

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish seis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa?ís
• IPA^(key): /sa??is/, [s???is]

Numeral

saís

1. six

   Synonym: anim

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English size.

Noun

sais

1. size

English

Etymology

From Old French, equivalent to French pays (“country”).

Noun

pais (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, law, Middle English, survives only in phrases "trial per pais" and "matter in pais") The (people of the) country.

Usage notes

• A trial per pais is a trial by the country, i.e. by a jury; and matter in pais is matter triable by the country, or jury.

Anagrams

• AIPs, AISP, APIs, ASPI, IAPs, IASP, IPAs, PIAs, PISA, Pisa, SAPI, sipa

French

Verb

pais

1. first-person singular present indicative of paître
2. second-person singular present indicative of paître
3. second-person singular imperative of paître

Anagrams

• aspi

Galician

Noun

pais m pl

1. plural of padre
2. parents

Related terms

• país

Further reading

• “pai” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?is/

Noun

pais (plural paises)

1. country (nation)

Istriot

Alternative forms

• paìs

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pagenses, from Late Latin p?g?nsis (“inhabitant of a district”), from Latin p?gus (“village; district”). Compare Italian paese, Venetian pajès, Friulian paîs, Sicilian paisi, Romansch pajais, Catalan país, French pays, Portuguese país, Spanish país.

Noun

pais

1. country
2. village

Norman

Alternative forms

• peis (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin p?sum, from Ancient Greek ????? (píson).

Pronunciation

Noun

pais m (plural pais)

1. (Jersey) pea

Synonyms

• pais rond

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin p?cem, accusative singular of p?x.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pai?s/

Noun

pais f (oblique plural pais, nominative singular pais, nominative plural pais)

1. peace

Descendants

• ? English: peace
• French: paix
• Bourguignon: pois
• Walloon: påye

Etymology 2

From Late Latin p?g?nsis, which is derived from Latin p?gus (“country”).

Alternative forms

• païs (scholarly transcription)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?is/

Noun

pais m (oblique plural pais, nominative singular pais, nominative plural pais)

1. country; nation

Usage notes

• The vast majority of facsimiles of manuscripts use pais to mean peace and païs (with a diaeresis on the i) to mean country. While this avoids ambiguity this distinction is not found in the original manuscripts which do not contain diaereses at all.

Descendants

• Bourguignon: poiys
• Catalan: país
• Middle French: pays, païs
  • French: pays
• Papiamentu: pais
• Portuguese: país
• Spanish: país

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish país and Portuguese país and Kabuverdianu país.

Noun

pais

1. country

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Homophones: paz (Brazil), pás (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: pais

Noun

pais m pl

1. parents
2. plural of pai

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with país.

Romansch

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *p?sum, from Latin p?nsum.

Noun

pais m

1. (Puter, Vallader) weight

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) paisa
• (Sursilvan, Surmiran) peisa
• (Sutsilvan) pesa

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

pais m

1. genitive singular of pas

Taroko

Noun

pais

1. enemy