Feminine

Prise

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Können Sie mir irgendwo eine Prise davon besorgen ?

Can you get me a pinch of it somewhere?

(feminine) pinch, dash (amount that can be held between thumb, index and middle finger, of salt, flour, powder etc.)
(feminine) prize (captured ship or freight)
(feminine, figuratively) booty, spoils (in general)

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Basel-Landschaft

bryyse

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpʁiːzə/

Borrowed from Middle French

prise

In summary

Ca. 1400, from Middle French prise (“spoils”), from prendre (“to take”). The monophthongal form and the restriction to nautical context probably established themselves under influence of Middle Low German prîse, from the same source. The diphthongised form is preserved in preisgeben (“to surrender, relinquish”). The sense “pinch” (18th c.) is a renewed loan from Modern French.