poree

Old French

Alternative forms

• poret

Etymology

From Late Latin porellus (“leek”), formed from a diminutive of Latin porrum.

Noun

poree m or f

1. leek
2. leek soup

Descendants

• Middle French: porrée, porret
  • French: porrette
    • → English: porret
  • Walloon: poret, porea
    • → Limburgish: poor
  • → German: Porree
    • → Esperanto: poreo
    • → Hungarian: póré
    • → Russian: порей (porej)
  • → Low German: Porree
• → English: porray
• → Hungarian: paraj
• → Luxembourgish: Porrett
• → Middle Dutch: poreye
  • Dutch: prei
    • Afrikaans: prei
    • → Indonesian: prei
    • → Papiamentu: prei
    • → West Frisian: prei
  • West Flemish: pret