Noun: prairie
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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1831, James Fenimore Cooper, De prairie, of Grazige woestijn van Noord-Amerika, vol. 1, tr. from English, A. & J. Honkoop (publ.), page 339.
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De slangen der Prairie zijn niet vergiftig, uitgezonderd eenige vergramde ratelslangen, welker ratel hen intusschen steeds aanmeldt, voor dat zij u eenig kwaad doen. (The snakes of the prairie are not venomous, some angered rattlesnakes excepted, whose rattle in the meantime announces them each time, before they do any harm to you.)
Nouns inflected like prairie
vaatwasmachine,
hekkensluiter,
urinoir,
whiskey,
internetsite,
internetcafé,
bestemoer,
besteller,
renovatie,
stokstaartje,
benzinestation,
kruipklokje,
bodybuildster,
scharminkel,
vrijbuiter,
server,
serval,
sessie,
seider,
selfie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from English prairie, from French prairie, from Middle French prairie, from Old French praerie, from Latin pratum. Re-borrowed from English after Middle Dutch praierie (also from Middle French prairie) fell out of use. Related to prieel. See: English Nouns '
prairie', French Nouns '
prairie', Latin Nouns '
pratum'.
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