fras
Cornish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
fras
- Mixed mutation of bras.
Mutation[edit]
Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish fras (“shower”).
Noun[edit]
fras f (genitive singular fraise, nominative plural frasa)
Derived terms[edit]
- fras sneachta (“snowshower”)
- fraschith (“heavy shower”)
- frasnéal (“raincloud”)
Related terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
fras (genitive singular masculine frais, genitive singular feminine fraise, plural frasa, comparative fraise)
Declension[edit]
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | fras | fhras | frasa; fhrasa² | |
| Vocative | fhrais | frasa | ||
| Genitive | fraise | frasa | fras | |
| Dative | fras; fhras¹ |
fhras; fhrais (archaic) |
frasa; fhrasa² | |
| Comparative | níos fraise | |||
| Superlative | is fraise | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Verb[edit]
fras
- Alternative form of frasaigh (“to shower”)
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fras”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
fras f (genitive singular froise, plural frasan)
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
fras (past fhras, future frasaidh, verbal noun frasadh, past participle fraste)
References[edit]
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wrasto”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 429
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin phrasis, from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis).
Noun[edit]
fras c
Declension[edit]
| Declension of fras | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | fras | frasen | fraser | fraserna |
| Genitive | fras | frasens | frasers | frasernas |
Synonyms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
- Cornish non-lemma forms
- Cornish mutated adjectives
- Cornish mixed-mutation forms
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- ga:Music
- Irish adjectives
- Irish non-lemma forms
- Irish verb forms
- ga:Weather
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Middle Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic feminine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic verbs
- gd:Weather
- Swedish terms derived from Late Latin
- Swedish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns