analys

Analys is a term that appears in several languages as the noun meaning analysis. In English, however, analys is not a standard form; the corresponding noun is analysis and the verb forms are analyse (British English) or analyze (American English). The plural of analysis is analyses in both major English varieties.

In other languages of the Germanic and Scandinavian families, cognate forms are commonly used to denote the same concept. For example, Swedish uses analys as the noun for analysis, while Danish and Norwegian employ similar spellings with language-specific inflection. These terms appear across academic, scientific, and technical writing to describe the systematic examination and breakdown of a subject, data set, text, or phenomenon.

Etymology traces the word to Greek analysis, via Latin and French, before entering English. The English noun evolved to analysis, with the related verb forms analyse or analyze. Cognates in other languages adopt local spelling rules but retain the same core meaning.

Usage note: while English relies on analysis/analyses for the noun and analyse/analyze for the verb, other languages may use forms like analys or analyse as base forms for the noun, depending on spelling conventions. Readers encountering analys in multilingual texts should consider the surrounding language to determine whether the form is a standard noun in that language or a non-English inflection.

See also: analysis, analyses, analyse, analyze.