Etymology

pealike

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Today it means: Resembling a pea. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English pea
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The story

  1. Latinpisum
  2. Late Latinpisa
  3. Old Englishpise
  4. Middle Englishpese
  5. Englishpeasebf.
  6. Englishpea
  7. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  8. Proto-Germanic*līką
  9. English todaypealike

From pea + -like.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.