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priem.

bodkin, awl

5 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/prim/
  1. bodkin, awl

    masculine
  2. punch, piercer

    masculine
  3. squeezing mandrel

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch priem, from Proto-Germanic *preumaz (compare Low German Preen, German Pfriem), alteration of *preunaz, from Proto-Indo-European *brewn- (compare Lithuanian briaunà ‘edge’, Albanian brez ‘belt, girdle’).

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