pêr

See also: Appendix:Variations of "per"

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh per, from Proto-Brythonic *per, a borrowing from Latin pira, plural of pirum n (“pear”). Cognate with Cornish per, Breton per.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peːr/
• Rhymes: -eːr

Noun

pêr f (collective, singulative peren)

1. pears; sweet fruit
2. pear trees; sweet-fruit trees

Synonyms

• gellyg

Derived terms

• perllan f (“orchard”)

Adjective

pêr (feminine singular pêr, plural perion, equative pered, comparative perach, superlative peraf)

1. sweet(-tasting), mellow, delicious

   Synonyms: melys, blasus, sawrus

2. sweet-smelling, fragrant

   Synonyms: aroglber, persawrus, peraroglus

3. sweet-sounding; pleasant, agreeable

Derived terms

• 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 greyling 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”)
• perarogl (“sweet scent”)
• peraroglus, persawrus (“fragrant”)
• 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”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of pêr

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pêr	bêr	mhêr	phêr

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

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pêr”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies