praï

See also: prai

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin prātum.

Noun

praï m (plural praïs)

  1. (Guernsey) meadow
    • 1883, Denys Corbet, ‘Le R'nouvé’, Patois Poems of the Channel Islands:
      Et l'vier boeu', fier d'être sàns joug ou bougue, / Cuche avau l'praï [...]. (And the old ox, happy to be free of yoke and harness, runs to the meadow.)
    • 2006, Marie de Garis, ‘Enne p'tite ôlure’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, p. 26:
      I v'nait d'mé téléphonaïr qu'a s'était défitchie d'sa terraïe dans lé praï et si j'y aigu'rais à la trachier. (He has just telephoned me to say that she has broken loose from where she was grazing in the meadow and would I help him look for her.)
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