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prettygoodword) wrote2008-07-08 07:29 am
prettygoodword) wrote2008-07-08 07:29 am
skirret
skirret - n., a plant of the parsley family, Sium sisarum, cultivated for its edible, sweet tubers.
Kind of like white sweet potatoes. Etymology gets convoluted: in Middle English it was skirwhit, alteration (influenced by the folk etymology of skir, pure + white) of Old French eschervi, probably from Arabic karawyā, caraway, from Greek karō.
---L.
Kind of like white sweet potatoes. Etymology gets convoluted: in Middle English it was skirwhit, alteration (influenced by the folk etymology of skir, pure + white) of Old French eschervi, probably from Arabic karawyā, caraway, from Greek karō.
---L.