peirsil

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish persille, from Anglo-Norman peresil, from Latin petroselinum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλινον (petrosélinon, “parsley”), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”) + σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʲɛɾʲʃəlʲ/

Noun

peirsil f (genitive singular peirsile)

  1. parsley (Petroselinum crispum)

Declension

Declension of peirsil (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative peirsil
vocative a pheirsil
genitive peirsile
dative peirsil
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an pheirsil
genitive na peirsile
dative leis an bpeirsil
don pheirsil

Mutation

Mutated forms of peirsil
radical lenition eclipsis
peirsil pheirsil bpeirsil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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