FromMiddle Welshper, fromProto-Brythonic*per, a borrowing fromLatinpira, plural ofpirum n(“pear”). Cognate withCornishper,Bretonper.
pêr (plural,singularperen f)
- pears; sweetfruit
- pear trees; sweet-fruit trees
pêr (feminine singularpêr,pluralperion,equativepered,comparativeperach,superlativeperaf)
- sweet(-tasting),mellow,delicious
- Synonyms:melys,blasus,sawrus
- sweet-smelling,fragrant
- Synonyms:aroglber,persawrus,peraroglus
- sweet-sounding;pleasant,agreeable
- 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”)
- peraidd(“sweet”)
- 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”)
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “pêr”, inGweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pêr”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
FromProto-Indo-European*ph₂tḗr.
- IPA(key): /per/
- Hyphenation:pêr
pêr m
- father
- Synonyms:pi,pêrd
