Noun: pease
| Singular | pease |
| Plural | peasen |
Sample Sentences
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Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, […] [c. 1760, “Pease Porridge Hot”:]
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It was fiercely cold, but I was a good deal warmed when the lad who drove me, talking of the crops of the country, spoke of “the peasen.” Thank God! I said to myself, there is still some smack of old England left in the land. [1924, Arthur Machen [pseudonym; Arthur Llewellyn Jones], chapter IV, in The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering, London: Martin Secker, page 113:]
Nouns inflected like pease
haarscheibe,
wunderwaffe,
Schutzstaffel,
magenstrasse,
palatschinke,
Frikadelle,
lagerstätte,
Judenhetze,
pease,
Ursprache,
schnecke,
Wunderwaffe,
Einsatzgruppe,
Etymology
From Middle English pese (“pea”), from Old English pise (“pea”), from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos). See: Middle English Nouns '
pese', Old English Nouns '
pise', Latin Nouns '
pisum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πίσον'.