Pease
/piːz/noun
An archaic plural form of pea, now mainly preserved in phrases like pease pudding.
Did you know?Pease is the old English plural of pea, and the modern singular pea was back-formed from it because speakers mistook the -s ending as a plural marker.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pis-
“A pea or vetch-like pulse”
Latin
Latin
pīsum
“Pea”
Old English
OE
pise
“Pea”
Middle English
English
pease
“Plural form meaning peas”
Modern English
English
pease
“Archaic plural surviving in fixed phrases”