Feminine

Prise

Meaning

(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)

easy victory

Kriegsbeute

Raubgut

Plündergut

Winzigkeit

Frequency

Basel-Landschaft

bryyse

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpʁiːzə/

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.

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