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Appendix:Variations of "ois"
French
Etymology
fr fro -ois, from fr la -ēnsis. In some senses they are conflated with fr la-lat -iscus (whence also the doublet fr -esque 1). More at en -ish, en -ese.
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï--ois.wav <<France>> (<<Lyon>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick--ois.wav <<France>> (<<Somain>>)
Suffix
Used to form adjectives related to a particular country, region or city, their associated inhabitant names, and the local language or dialect
Derived terms
fr
fr fr anversois, fr Anversois (from fr Anvers) fr athois, fr Athois (from fr Ath) fr bavarois, fr Bavarois (from fr Bavière) fr binchois, fr Binchois (from fr Binche) fr brugeois, fr Brugeois (from fr Bruges) fr bruxellois, fr Bruxellois (from fr Bruxelles) fr buvrinnois, fr Buvrinnois (from fr Buvrinnes) fr édimbourgeois, fr Édimbourgeois (from fr Édimbourg) fr estinnois, fr Estinnois (from fr Estinnes) fr danois, fr Danois (from fr Danemark) fr françois, fr François (from fr France) fr fribourgeois, fr Fribourgeois (from fr Fribourg) fr gantois, fr Gantois (from fr Gand) fr hambourgeois, fr Hambourgeois (from fr Hambourg) fr hasseltois, fr Hasseltois (from fr Hasselt) fr hongrois, fr Hongrois (from fr Hongrie) fr kinois, fr Kinois (from fr Kinshasa) fr liégeois, fr Liégeois (from fr Liège) fr limbourgeois, fr Limbourgeois (from fr Limbourg) fr louviérois, fr Louviérois (from fr La Louvière) fr luxembourgeois, fr Luxembourgeois (from fr Luxembourg) fr manageois, fr Manageois (from fr Manage) fr montois, fr Montois (from fr Mons) fr namurois, fr Namurois (from fr Namur) fr québécois, fr Québécois (from fr Quebec) fr salzbourgeois, fr Salzbourgeois (from fr Salzbourg) fr strasbourgeois, fr Strasbourgeois (from fr Strasbourg) fr suédois, fr Suédois (from fr Suède) fr viennois, fr Viennois (from fr Vienne) fr zaïrois, fr Zaïrois (from fr Zaïre)
See also
fr -ais
Latin
Suffix
la suffix form
la -os dat//abl p Archaic Latin second-declension ending
la meos meois
la quros qurois
la sokios sokiois
Category:Archaic Latin non-lemma forms
Old French
Alternative forms
fro -eis
Etymology
fro :inh la:-iscus la:-ēnsis
In some senses from fro la-lat -, fro la-vul -iscus, in others from fro la -ēnsis.
Suffix
fro suffix
used to form nationalities
used to form names of languages
fro françois French
fro anglois English
used to form the first- and second-person singular imperfect tense
Descendants
fr -ais -ois
nrf -ais -ouais