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persil
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See also: Persil
Cornish
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French persil, peresil (possibly via Middle English persely), from Latin petroselīnum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”, literally “stone celery”).
Pronunciation
Noun
persil (collective, singulative persilen f)
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French persil, peresil, perresil, inherited from Latin petroselīnum (possibly through a Vulgar Latin *petrosīnu, compare Sicilian pitrusinu and the Old French variant persin, later with the suffix -il; or through Early Medieval Latin petrosilio), itself from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”).
Pronunciation
Noun
persil m (countable and uncountable, plural persils)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “persil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch perceel, from Middle Dutch perceel, from older parcheel, from Old French parcelle, from Late Latin particella, from Latin particula. Doublet of partikel and parsel.
Pronunciation
Noun
Further reading
- “persil”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Middle English
Noun
persil
- alternative form of persely
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