petersilige

Old English

Alternative forms

petersilie

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *petarsilljā (“parsley, celery”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ter.si.li.je/, [ˈpe.terˠ.zi.li.je]

Noun

petersiliġe f

parsley

Declension

Declension of petersilige (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	petersiliġe	petersiliġan
accusative	petersiliġan	petersiliġan
genitive	petersiliġan	petersiliġena
dative	petersiliġan	petersiliġum

Descendants

Middle English: watersilie, wætersylie (mistaking p for ƿ (=w))

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “petersiliġe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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