peirsil

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish persille, from Anglo-Norman peresil, from Latin petroselinum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλινον (petrosélinon, “parsley”), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”) + σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲɛɾʲʃəlʲ/

Noun

peirsil f (genitive singular peirsile)

1. parsley (Petroselinum crispum)

Declension

Declension of peirsil (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative peirsil vocative a pheirsil genitive peirsile dative peirsil forms with the definite article case singular nominative an pheirsil genitive na peirsile dative leis an bpeirsil don pheirsil

Mutation

Mutated forms of peirsil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
peirsil	pheirsil	bpeirsil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “peirsil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “peirsil”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “peirsil”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024