pays – French noun declension

Noun: pays
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m

pays

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like pays

droit de cuissage, diméthylmercure, ice tea, ekamanganèse, sativa, Androphages, scalap, schuss, aminométhane, développement personnel, sucre farine, slavon, soulas, souabe, sorabe, somali, soccer, sodium, javanais, as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle French pays, from Old French pais, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”).
2. See related terms. Cognates include Italian paese. Borrowed into Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish as país. Cognates in regional languages in France: Norman payis, Gallo peïs, Picard poaiyis, Bourguignon paiyis, Franco-Provençal payis, Occitan país, Corsican paese. See: Latin Nouns 'pāgus', Italian Nouns 'paese'.

Verbs referencing "pays"

Catalan Nouns país, Galician Nouns país, Portuguese Nouns país, Spanish Nouns país, Italian Nouns paese.

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