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
singular plural
nominative preas preasanna
vocative a phreas a phreasanna
genitive preasa preasanna
dative preas preasanna
forms with the definite article
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

Mutated forms of preas
radical lenition eclipsis
preas phreas bpreas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʰɾʲes̪/

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

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

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

Mutation

Mutation of preas
radical lenition
preas phreas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • 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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

preas f pl

  1. plural of prea

Verb

preas

  1. second-person singular present indicative of prear
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