preas

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Irish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English press.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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preas m (genitive singular preasa, nominative plural preasanna)

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

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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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

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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English press.

Noun

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preas m (genitive singular preasa, plural preasan)

  1. wrinkle, fold, crease
    gun phreas gun smalwithout wrinkle or spot
    Tha preasan 'na aodann.His face is wrinkled.

Noun

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

  1. cupboard, press

Verb

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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

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

Noun

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

Derived terms
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Mutation

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

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “preas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾeas/ [ˈpɾe.as]
  • Rhymes: -eas
  • Syllabification: pre‧as

Noun

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preas f pl

  1. plural of prea

Verb

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preas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of prear