piz

From English peas.

piz (plural pizil)

1. a pea

• pis

piz m (oblique plural piz, nominative singular piz, nominative plural piz)

1. chest

• Unlike in modern French, piz does not only refer to the chest of an animal.

• French: pis

From Middle English pese, from Old English pise, from Late Latin pisa.

piz (plural pizzen or pizzeen)

1. pea
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Piz porachès.

     Pease porridge.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 62