fras

See also: Fras, fräs, frås, and Fraś

Cornish

Adjective

fras

  1. mixed mutation of bras

Mutation

Mutation of fras
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
bras vras unchanged pras fras vras

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fras (“shower”).

Noun

fras f (genitive singular fraise, nominative plural frasa)

  1. shower
  2. onset, attack
  3. (music) run

Derived terms

  • fras sneachta (“snowshower”)
  • fraschith (“heavy shower”)
  • frasnéal (“raincloud”)
  • frasach (“showery”)
  • frasaigh (“to shower”)

Adjective

fras (genitive singular masculine frais, genitive singular feminine fraise, plural frasa, comparative fraise)

  1. copious, plentiful, abundant

Declension

Declension of fras
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative fras fhras frasa;
fhrasa2
vocative fhrais frasa
genitive fraise frasa fras
dative fras;
fhras1 		fhras;
fhrais (archaic) 		frasa;
fhrasa2
Comparative níos fraise
Superlative is fraise

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Verb

fras

  1. alternative form of frasaigh (“to shower”)

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish frass, from Old Irish fras (“shower”), from Proto-Celtic *wrastâ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wérseh₂ (“humidity”), see also Sanskrit वर्षा (varṣā, “rain”), Albanian versë (“dew”), Armenian գայր (gayr, “dirt, mud”), Old Persian باران (bārān, “rain”).

Noun

fras f (genitive singular froise, plural frasan)

  1. shower
  2. seed

Derived terms

Verb

fras (past fhras, future frasaidh, verbal noun frasadh, past participle fraste)

  1. rain, scatter, shower, drip

References

  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wrasto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 429

Swedish

Etymology

From Late Latin phrasis, from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis).

Noun

fras c

  1. a phrase
  2. (grammar) a phrase
  3. rustling (like from something dry and brittle, for example dry leaves)
  4. crunch (of something airy and crispy)
    Havrefras
    Oat crunch [brand of breakfast cereal]

Declension

Declension of fras
nominative genitive
singular indefinite fras fras
definite frasen frasens
plural indefinite fraser frasers
definite fraserna frasernas

See also

References

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