▪ Not from Ar
bisillaẗ, but ultimately from the same source is Engl
pea(s): e/m
C17, from mEngl
pease (pl.
pesen), which was both single and collective (as wheat, corn) but the /s/ sound was mistaken for the pl. inflection; from oEngl (WSaxon)
pise, (Mercian)
poise ‘pea’, from lLat
pisa, var. of
pisum ‘pea’, prob. a loan-word from Grk
pison ‘the pea’, a word of unknown origin (Thracian? Phrygian?) –
EtymOnline.