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Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh per, from Proto-Brythonic *per, a borrowing from Latin pira, plural of pirum n (“pear”). Cognate with Cornish per, Breton per.
Pronunciation
Noun
pêr f (collective, singulative peren)
- pears; sweet fruit
- pear trees; sweet-fruit trees
Synonyms
Derived terms
Adjective
pêr (feminine singular pêr, plural perion, equative pered, comparative perach, superlative peraf)
- sweet(-tasting), mellow, delicious
- Synonyms: melys, blasus, sawrus
- sweet-smelling, fragrant
- Synonyms: aroglber, persawrus, peraroglus
- sweet-sounding; pleasant, agreeable
Derived terms
- afuad mawr pêr (“great scented liverwort”)
- alan pêr (“winter heliotrope”)
- alyswm pêr (“sweet alison”)
- aroglber, arogleuber, melysber (“fragrant”)
- byseddlys pêr (“heath fingerwort”)
- cap cwyr pêr (“honey waxcap”)
- cap ffibr pêr (“fruity fibrecap”)
- cap ffibr pêr-sawrus (“pear fibrecap”)
- cap gweog pêr (“sweet webcap”)
- cap tyllog pêr (“fragrant bolete”)
- creithig bêr (“sweet cicely”)
- drysi pêr, drys pêr, mwyar pêr, perfieri, pêr-frail (“sweetbriers”)
→ drysi-pêr mân-flodeuog, drysni pêr, rhoslwyn pêr (“small-flowered sweetbriers”) - ehedydd pêr (“melodious lark”)
- eithin pêr (“juniper”)
- fioled bêr, crinllys pêr (“sweet violet”)
- glesyn-y-coed pêr (“yellow bugle, ground-pine”)
- helyg pêr (“bay willow”)
- helyglys pêr (“great willowherb”)
- hiclys pêr (“lesser notchwort”)
- llaethlys pêr (“sweet spurge”)
- llaethwyg pêr (“wild liquorice”)
- llwydyn pêr (“sweet grayling mushroom”)
- llwyn mafon pêr (“purple-flowered raspberry”)
- llysiau'r-angel pêr (“garden angelica”)
- llysiau'r-dryw pêr (“fragrant agrimony”)
- marchog pêr (“scented knight mushroom”)
- marchredyn pêr (“hay-scented buckler ferns”)
- marddanadl pêr (“white horehound”)
- melyn-yr-hwyr pêr (“fragrant evening-primrose”)
- melysor pêr (“singing honeyeater”)
- mintys pêr (“wild marjoram”)
- penigan pêr (“clove pink”)
- pêr-chwibanwr (“shrike-thrush”)
- pêr-ehedydd (“songlark”)
- perarogl (“sweet scent”)
- peraroglaidd, peraroglus, persawrus (“fragrant”)
- perdon (“tune, melody”)
- pergnau (“nutmegs”)
- persain, seinber (“euphony”)
- perwellt (“vernal grass”)
→ perwellt y gwanwyn, melynwellt pêr y gwanwyn (“sweet vernal-grass”) - perwresog (“ecstatic”)
- rhedyn pêr y mynydd (“lemon-scented ferns”)
- siglen hesg pêr (“sweet flag, muskrat root”)
- tanagr pêr (“chlorophonia, euphonia”)
- tegeirian pêr (“fragrant orchid”)
- tegyll brau pêr (“bitter almond brittlegill”)
- telor cyrs pêr (“nightingale reed warbler”)
- telor pêr (“melodious warbler”)
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “pêr”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pêr”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Zazaki
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /per/
- Hyphenation: pêr
Noun
pêr m
- father
- Synonyms: pi, pêrd