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pays
- third-person singular simple present indicative of pay
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Inherited from Middle French pays, from Old French pais, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”).
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.
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→ Catalan: país
→ Galician: país
→ Portuguese: país (see there for further descendants)
→ Spanish: país
“pays”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
From Old French pais.
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- French: pays
From Old French païs, from Late Latin pāgēnsis (“inhabitant of a district”), derived from Latin pāgus (“countryside; district”).
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- Les Pays Bas (“the Netherlands”)
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