preas

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English press.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pʲɾʲasˠ/

Noun

preas m (genitive singular preasa, nominative plural preasanna)

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

Declension
Declension of preas

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative preas preasanna
Vocative a phreas a phreasanna
Genitive preasa preasanna
Dative preas preasanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an preas na preasanna
Genitive an phreasa na bpreasanna
Dative leis an bpreas

don phreas

 leis na preasanna

Derived terms
  • clóphreas m (“printing press”)
  • litirphreas m (“letterpress”)
  • preasáil (“press”, verb)
  • preasobair f (“presswork”)
  • preasphrofa m (“press-proof”)
  • preasálaí m (“crimp”)
  • preasálaí m (“presser”)
  • prios m (“press, cupboard”)

Mutation
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.

References

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English press.

Noun

preas m (genitive singular preasa, plural preasan)

  1. wrinkle, fold, crease
    gun phreas gun smal ― without wrinkle or spot
    Tha preasan 'na aodann. ― His face is wrinkled.

Noun

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

  1. cupboard, press

Verb

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

Borrowed from Welsh prys.

Noun

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

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

Derived terms
  • preas-chrabhsag (“gooseberry bush”)
  • preas-dhearc, preas-dhearcag, preas-nan-dearc (“berry bush”)
  • preas-dris (“gooseberry bush”)
  • preas-droighinn (“thorn bush”)
  • preas-fhiontag (“cloudberry bush”)
  • preas-nan-ròs (“rose bush”)
  • preas-nom-flontag (“crowberry bush”)

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

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɾeas/

Noun

preas f pl

  1. plural of prea
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