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

1. 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^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.