pêr

See also: Appendix:Variations of "per"

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

• IPA^(key): /peːr/
• Rhymes: -eːr

Noun

pêr f (collective, singulative peren)

1. pears; sweet fruit
2. pear trees; sweet-fruit trees

Synonyms

• gellyg

Derived terms

• perllan f (“orchard”)

Adjective

pêr (feminine singular pêr, plural perion, equative pered, comparative perach, superlative peraf)

1. sweet(-tasting), mellow, delicious

   Synonyms: melys, blasus, sawrus

2. sweet-smelling, fragrant
3. sweet-sounding; pleasant, agreeable

Derived terms

• creithig bêr (“sweet cicely”)
• drysi pêr, drys pêr, mwyar pêr, perfieri (“sweetbriers”)
• eithin pêr (“juniper”)
• glesyn-y-coed pêr (“yellow bugle”)
• marchredyn pêr (“hay-scented buckler ferns”)
• rhedyn pêr y mynydd (“lemon-scented ferns”)

 

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pêr	bêr	mhêr	phêr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• 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