Re: [tied] peas [was: *(H-)p/bh[-r/l-] again]

From: tgpedersen
Message: 29489
Date: 2004-01-13

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> 12-01-04 16:10, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Kuhn would probably call Middle Engl. <peas-> a Nordwestblock
word
> > travelling to England with the landnám.
>
> It was ME pese [pe:z&] (pl. pesen) < OE pise ~ piose (pl. pisan),
> borrowed from Lat. pisa (a by-form of pisum, pl. pisa; with peas
the
> distinction between sg. and pl. is notoriously problematic) <-- Gk.
> pison ~ pisos.
>

Thank you for the correction. Did they leave a receipt?

Torsten