pastenaille

Middle French

Alternative forms

• pastenade, pastenaie

Etymology

From Old Occitan pastenaga (“carrot”), from Latin pastināca. Doublet of panais from Old French pasnaie.

Noun

pastenaille f (plural pastenailles)

1. parsnip

Descendants

• French: pastenade, patenais
• → German: Pastiney, Pastinei
• → Ottoman Turkish: پاستنای (pastinay)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pastenaille)
• “pastenade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.