pirie
See also: Pirie
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pery, perye, pire, pirry, piry, pirye, purye, pyrie, pyry
Etymology
Inherited from Old English piriġe, apparently from a Vulgar Latin *pirea (not known in the Romance languages); compare pere (“pear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiriː(ə)/, /ˈpɛriː(ə)/
Noun
pirie (plural piries or pirie)
- pear tree
- Synonym: peretre
References
- “piri(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-20.