prier

• pryer

From pry + -er.

prier (plural priers)

1. A person who pries.

• Perri, irrep, riper

From Proto-Albanian *per(i)-era, a prefixal verb, cognate to Hittite [Term?] (/⁠arnumi⁠/, “to move, to shift”), Sanskrit ऋणुते (ṛṇóti, “to arise, to move”), Ancient Greek ὄρνυμι (órnumi, “to stir up”), Latin orior (“to rise”).^[1]

prier (aorist prora, participle prierë)

1. to incline, lean, turn aside

• pjerr

From Old French proiier, preier, from Latin precārī.

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.je/

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prier

1. (transitive) to pray
2. (transitive) to beg, to beseech, to pray to

   Vous devez prier Dieu.

   You must pray to God.

• prière

• “prier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• périr, riper

From Old French proiier, from Latin precari.

prier

1. to pray
2. to implore; to beg; to beseech

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: prier

From Old French proiier, from Latin precor, precārī, from prex (“request, petition, prayer”), from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ-, *perḱ- (“to ask, woo”).

prier

1. (Jersey, religion) to pray

prier

1. alternative form of proiier

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Inherited from Latin (mensis) Aprīlis. Probably via an early (unattested) *prire; which has either undergone metathesis or more likely by a merging of the aforementioned *prire and the archaic prie (pronounced /'pri͜e/). For the sound change of the latter compare the dialectal fărină with standard făină.

Cognate to Aromanian aprir, prir, prilj, Albanian prill. Doublet of aprilie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprjer/

prier m (uncountable)

1. (popular/folk usage) April (fourth month of the Gregorian calendar)

   Synonym: (standard/most common) aprilie