The Jèrriais word
pais covers beans and peas (you need to specify which type of legume you mean).
Pais au fou is beancrock. The word
pais, like French
pois and English
pease, derives from Latin
pisum (English
pease, which survives in
pease pudding and
peasecods, was misinterpreted as a plural and a new singular was created: pea - see our post
Turnips and paparazzi for similar reanalysis).
But the Latin word
pagus (a country district) has also come down to us as the word
pais, meaning an area - most often these days in phrases and in placenames referring to a rocky area. In French it's ended up as
pays, which we've adopted as our standard word for country:
Jèrri est un p'tit pays (Jersey is a small country).
