different between sais vs sams

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

Noun

sams

1. plural of sam

Anagrams

• ASMS, ASMs, MSAs, Mass, Mass., SMAs, SMSA, mass

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *šamas, from a stem *šam-, from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“stick, wood”). The semantic change (“wood” > “fish”) is due to resemblance between wels catfish, especially when asleep in water, and pieces of wood. Cognates include Lithuanian šãmas, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian ??? (som), Czech sumec (Old Czech som), Polish sum, Ancient Greek ????? (kámax, “pile, stake”) (compare Greek ?????? (kamáki, “spear, harpoon”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

sams m (1st declension)

1. wels catfish, sheatfish (a scaleless freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis)

Declension

References

Old Norse

Adjective

sams

1. strong masculine/neuter genitive singular of samr

Determiner

sams

1. strong masculine/neuter genitive singular of samr