patrijs – Dutch noun declension

Noun: patrijs
Gender: Feminine Hyphenation:

Sg.	patrijs
Pl.	patrijzen

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like patrijs

godsbewijs, sjmoes, borrelglas, provinciehuis, vleermuis, bootreis, boothuis, kleine barmsijs, boelhuis, schapenvlies, bosmuis, schildluis, bejaardentehuis, grachtenhuis, maskergors, kleine rietgans, badhuis, uurglas, bakhuis, schijthuis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch patrise, from older partrise, from Old French pertriz, variant of perdriz, from Latin perdīx (“partridge”), from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”). Forms retaining the first r existed into the 17th century. See: Latin Nouns 'perdīx', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πέρδιξ'.

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