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Abenaki
Etymology
From English peas.
Noun
piz (plural pizil)
- a pea
Old French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
piz oblique singular, m (oblique plural piz, nominative singular piz, nominative plural piz)
- chest, breast (of a person)
- udder (of an animal)
Descendants
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English pise, from Old English pise, from Late Latin pisa.
Pronunciation
Noun
piz (plural pizzen or pizzeen)
- pea
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Piz porachès.- Pease porridge.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 62