prys

prys

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pry
   • 1998, Brick, numbers 58-63, page 58:

     Hammers create, saws shape, wire enlightens, and pipes irrigate. But the crowbar prys, levers, moves, pushes or destroys.

From Dutch prijs, from Middle Dutch prijs, prise, from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium.

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prys (plural pryse)

1. price
2. prize

From Old Cornish prit, from Proto-Brythonic *prɨd.

prys m

1. time; season

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• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kociewie) IPA^(key): /ˈpris/

prys m animal

1. (Kociewie) synonym of pies

• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “prys”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 156

• prysg

From Proto-Celtic *kʷerstyo-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷres- (“bush, thicket”). Related to Welsh pren, English hurst.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /prɨːs/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /priːs/
• Rhymes: -ɨːs

prys m (plural prysoedd)

1. copse, wood
2. bush, shrub

• prysglwyn (“shrub”)
• prysgwydd (“undergrowth”)
• prysgyll (“hazel copse”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “prys”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies