priembre

Old French

Alternative forms

• preindre
• prembre
• priendre

Etymology

From Latin premere, present active infinitive of premō.

Verb

priembre

1. to press (apply physical pressure)
   • 14^th Century, Guillaume, Clerc de Normandie, Le bestiaire divin:

     Lun de ses oreilles prient a la terre moult durement

     They press one of his ears to the ground very hard.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Danish: prente
• English: print
• Middle Low German: prenten
• Norwegian: prente

Further reading

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (preindre)