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

Derived terms

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
    Synonyms: aroglber, persawrus, peraroglus
  3. 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

Mutated forms of pêr
radical soft nasal aspirate
pêr bêr mhêr phêr

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

  1. father
    Synonyms: pi, pêrd
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