priembre

Old French

Alternative forms

preindre
prembre
priendre

Etymology

From Latin premere, present active infinitive of premō.

Verb

priembre

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)

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