fras

See also: Fras, fräs, frås, and Fraś

Cornish

Adjective

fras

  1. Mixed mutation of bras.

Mutation

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fras (shower).

Noun

fras f (genitive singular fraise, nominative plural frasa)

  1. shower
  2. onset, attack
  3. (music) run

Derived terms

  • fras sneachta (snowshower)
  • fraschith (heavy shower)
  • frasnéal (raincloud)
  • frasach (showery)
  • frasaigh (to shower)

Adjective

fras (genitive singular masculine frais, genitive singular feminine fraise, plural frasa, comparative fraise)

  1. copious, plentiful, abundant

Declension

Verb

fras

  1. Alternative form of frasaigh (to shower)

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish frass, from Old Irish fras (shower), from Proto-Celtic *wrastâ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wérseh₂ (humidity), see also Sanskrit वर्षा (varṣā, rain), Albanian versë (dew), Armenian գայր (gayr, dirt, mud), Old Persian باران (bārān, rain).

Noun

fras f (genitive singular froise, plural frasan)

  1. shower
  2. seed

Derived terms

Verb

fras (past fhras, future frasaidh, verbal noun frasadh, past participle fraste)

  1. rain, scatter, shower, drip

References

  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wrasto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 429

Swedish

Etymology

From Late Latin phrasis, from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis).

Noun

fras c

  1. phrase
  2. sentence

Declension

Declension of fras 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fras frasen fraser fraserna
Genitive fras frasens frasers frasernas

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