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pois

1. plural of poi

• IOPS, IOPs, IPOs, OPIs, PIOs, SIOP, psoi, sopi

From Latin pax.

pois f (plural pois)

1. peace

• poikes, poijes, poikkeen (dialectal)

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 (e.g. Ingrian pois, Karelian pois); see Proto-Finnic *poikki for more.

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

pois (not comparable)

1. (of motion) away, off

   Synonym: (informal) menemään

   Hän meni pois.

   S/he went away.

   Ota vaatteet pois.

   Take your clothes off.

2. (informal, proscribed, locative) synonym of poissa (“away”)
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 imperative, chiefly in the positive) just (used to reduce the force of an imperative)

   Synonym: vain

   Kysy pois!

   Just ask! / Go ahead and ask!

• See the inflection table.
• poikkinainen
• poikittainen
• poiketa

• “pois”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• sopi

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

• IPA^(key): /pwa/ ~ /pwɑ/, /pwa/

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• Homophones: poids, poix

pois m (invariable)

1. pea
2. polka dot

• Haitian Creole: pwa (“bean”)

• “pois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• pos, pous

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpojs]

pois

1. so; then (in that case)

   Queres ir? Pois vai. ― So you want to go? Then go.

pois

1. because; for (by or for the cause that)

   Synonym: porque

2. well, well then

• pois que (“since”)

• despois (“after”)

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “poys”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “poys”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pois”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pois”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pois”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpoi̯s/, [ˈpo̞i̯z̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpoi̯s/, [ˈpo̞i̯ʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -oi̯s
• Hyphenation: pois

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?

• pakkoo, väljää, vällää, poikkee

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

pois

1. afterwards

Borrowed from French pois.

• IPA^(key): /puˈa/^**, /ˈpwa/^**[1]
• Rhymes: -a

pois m (invariable)

1. polka dot

• ipso-, posi, sopì, spio, spiò

Regional variants of pois

North Karelian (Viena)	pois
South Karelian (Tver)	poisʹ

Cognate with Finnish pois and Ingrian pois.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoi̯s/
• Hyphenation: pois

pois

1. (North Karelian) away

• (South Karelian, dialectal) iäreh

• P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “pois”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 140
• Pertti Virtaranta; Raija Koponen (2009), “pois”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[2], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

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

pois

1. then (indicating chronological order)
2. since

• French: puis

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

• peis

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

1. weight

• Middle French: poix
  • French: poids
• → Middle English: peis
  • → Middle Irish: spéis
    • Irish: spéis

From Latin pīsum.

• peis

pois m (plural)

1. peas (pulses)

The singular pois may not be attested; attestations of "un pois" all seem to refer to other definitions of pois.

• French: pois
• Norman: peis

See poi

pois

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

• pueis

From Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea.

• IPA^(key): /pɔjs/

pois

1. then

• Occitan: puèi

• poys (obsolete)

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).

• (São Miguel, Azores) IPA^(key): /ˈpøʃ/

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• Homophone: pôs (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: pois

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.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pois.

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.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pois.

• pois é
• pois então
• pois não?

• depois

• “pois”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pois”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026