paisan

See also: païsan

English

Noun

paisan (plural paisans)

1. Alternative form of paisano
   • 1960, Lou Monte, Dominick the Donkey:

     When Santa visits his paisans with Dominick he'll be, because the reindeers cannot climb the hills of Italy.

Anagrams

• Saipan, apians

Old French

Alternative forms

• paisant
• païsan (diaereses are used in some scholarly transcriptions)

Etymology

From païs (“countryside”) + -enc (“-ing”), a suffix denoting an individual belonging to or associated with a certain group or place, from Frankish *-ing. Cognate with English -ing (as in Browning, Ewing, etc.).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.iˈzãn/

Noun

paisan oblique singular, m (oblique plural paisans, nominative singular paisans, nominative plural paisan)

1. peasant (non-noble person)

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine
singular	subject	paisans	paisane
	oblique	paisan	paisane
plural	subject	paisan	paisanes
	oblique	paisans	paisanes

Synonyms

• vilain; vilein

Descendants

• English: peasant
• French: paysan
• Spanish: paisano