pônais
Norman
Alternative forms
- pânnais (Jersey)
- pânais, paunais (Guernsey)
Etymology
From Old French pasnaie, from Latin pastinaca (“parsnip, carrot”), from pastinum (“two-pronged fork”); related to pastinare (“to dig up the ground”).
Noun
pônais m (plural pônais)
- (Guernsey) parsnip
- 1883, Nicholas Guilbert, ‘L'Ami Pierre’:
- V'là not bouan vier ami Pierre, / A serellaïr dans ses pânais […] .
- There's our good old friend Peter, weeding his parsnips.
- 2006, Peggy Collenette, ‘Au shaoux du Vouest’, P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press 2006, p. 16:
- Quand nous vait les belles paunais et les manifique carottes.
- Look at the beautiful parsnips and the magnificent carrots.
- 1883, Nicholas Guilbert, ‘L'Ami Pierre’: