bisillà بِسِلَّى , var. bisillaẗ, bizillaẗ, bazillaẗ
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From It piselli ‘small peas’ < Lat pisum ‘pea’.
See sections CONC and WEST.
▪ Not from Ar bisillaẗ, but ultimately from the same source is Engl pea(s): e/mC17, 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.
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