pêr

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

• IPA^(key): /peːr/
• Rhymes: -eːr

pêr f pl (singulative peren)

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

• gellyg

• perllan f (“orchard”)

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1. sweet(-tasting), mellow, delicious

   Synonyms: melys, blasus, sawrus

2. sweet-smelling, fragrant
3. sweet-sounding; pleasant, agreeable

• drysi pêr (“sweetbriers”)

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• 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