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pois

See also: Pois, POIS, POIs, pôis, põis, and pȯis

English

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Noun

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pois

  1. plural of poi

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Bourguignon

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Etymology

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From Latin pax.

Noun

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pois f (plural pois)

  1. peace

Finnish

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Etymology

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poikki- +‎ -s (s-lative singular), through reduction of the earlier and dialectal form poies, poijes (< *poige-s). The variation in the gradation patterns between *-kk- : *-k- and *-k- : *-g- has not been conclusively explained, but the weaker form is found throughout Northern Finnic; see Proto-Finnic *poikki for more.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpoi̯s/, [ˈpo̞i̯s̠]
  • Rhymes: -ois
  • Syllabification(key): pois

Adverb

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pois (not comparable)

  1. (lative) away, off
    Synonym: (informal) menemään
    Hän meni pois.
    S/he went away.
    Ota vaatteet pois.
    Take your clothes off.
  2. (informal, proscribed, static) away
    Synonym: poissa
  3. (mathematics) minus, take away
    Synonym: miinus
    Kuudesta pois neljä on kaksi. / Kuusi pois neljä on kaksi.
    Six take away four is two.
  4. (with an imperative form) just (used to reduce the force of an imperative)
    Kysy pois!
    Just ask! / Go ahead and ask!

Inflection

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Declension of poikki-
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative poikki- –superessive – –
genitive – –delative – –
partitive – –sublative – –
accusative – –lative pois
poikki		 –
inessive poissa –temporal – –
elative – –causative – –
illative – –multiplicative – –
adessive – –distributive – –
ablative – –temp. dist. – –
allative – –prolative poikitse –
essive – –situative poikittain –
translative – –oppositive – –
abessive – –
instructive – poikin
comitative – –

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Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French pois, from earlier peis from Latin pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσος / πίσον (písos / píson).

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Noun

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pois m (plural pois)

  1. pea
  2. polka dot

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: pwa (“bean”)

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese pois, from Vulgar Latin *postius (“after”). Compare with French puis, Spanish pues, Italian poi.

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pois

  1. so; then (in that case)
    Queres ir? Pois vai. ― So you want to go? Then go.

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pois

  1. because; for (by or for the cause that)
    Synonym: porque
  2. well, well then

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Ingrian

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Etymology

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Lative of poikki- (“broken”). Akin to Finnish pois.

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Adverb

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pois

  1. (of motion) off, away
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 37:
      Sao: miltaiset linnut lentäät talveks pois?
      Say: what kind of birds are flying away when winter falls?

Synonyms

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References

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  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 421

Interlingua

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Adverb

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pois

  1. afterwards

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French pois.

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Noun

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pois m (invariable)

  1. polka dot

References

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  1. ^ pois in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Old French

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Etymology 1

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From Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea, from postus.

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pois

  1. then (indicating chronological order)
  2. since
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Etymology 2

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From earlier peis, from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum.

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Noun

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

  1. weight
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Etymology 3

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From Latin pīsum.

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Noun

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pois m (plural)

  1. peas (pulses)
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The singular pois may not be attested; attestations of "un pois" all seem to refer to other definitions of pois.

Descendants
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Etymology 4

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See poi

Adverb

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pois

  1. Alternative form of poi (“little, not much”)

Old Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea.

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Adverb

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pois

  1. then

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese pois, from Vulgar Latin *pos, from Classical Latin post (“after”). Compare with French puis, Spanish pues, Italian poi, and Romanian apoi (from ad post).

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Adverb

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pois (not comparable)

  1. so; then (in that case)
    Podemos, pois, terminá-lo.
    So we can finish it.
  2. emphasises a yes-or-no answer or an order
    Pois vai!
    Go!
    Pois sim.
    Indeed.

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:pois.

Conjunction

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pois

  1. because; for (by or for the cause that)
    Synonym: porque
    Gostei do livro, pois foi interessante.
    I liked the book, because it was interesting.

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:pois.

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