preas

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English press.

Pronunciation

Noun

preas m (genitive singular preasa, nominative plural preasanna)

  1. press (device used to apply pressure; printed media)

Declension

Declension of preas

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative preas preasanna
Vocative a phreas a phreasanna
Genitive preasa preasanna
Dative preas preasanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an preas na preasanna
Genitive an phreasa na bpreasanna
Dative leis an bpreas

don phreas

leis na preasanna

Derived terms

Related terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
preas phreas bpreas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English press.

Noun

preas m (genitive singular preasa, plural preasan)

  1. wrinkle, fold, crease
    gun phreas gun smal ― without wrinkle or spot
    Tha preasan 'na aodann. ― His face is wrinkled.

Noun

preas m (genitive singular pris, plural preasan or pris)

  1. cupboard, press

Verb

preas (past phreas, future preasaidh, verbal noun preasadh, past participle preaste)

  1. wrinkle, corrugate
  2. plait, braid
  3. squeeze, crush by weight or force

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Pictish. Cognate with Welsh prys (“bush, copse”).

Noun

preas m (genitive singular pris, plural preasan or pris)

  1. a bush, a shrub
    Thilg i an leanabh fo aon de na preasan.
    She threw the child under one of the shrubs.
    Cha deach car do theadhair mu phreas.
    You look well.
    (literally, “Your tether has not gone round the bush.”)
  2. a thicket
  3. brier
Usage notes

Preas is not used in Arran, where they say craobh for a garden bush and tom for a wild bush.

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
preas phreas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “preas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾeas/
  • Rhymes: -eas
  • Syllabification: pre‧as

Noun

preas f pl

  1. plural of prea

Verb

preas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of prear
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