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Where does “pônais” come from?

pônais (Norman) comes from Old French pasnaie, from Latin pastinaca, from Latin pastinum — A kind of two-pronged dibble; The action of...

pônais (Norman): parsnip

Definitions

  1. parsnip

Ancestry of “pônais”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpasnaie—
2Latinpastinacaparsnip; stingray
3LatinpastinumA kind of two-pronged dibble; The action of...
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