smallage

English

Etymology

From Middle English smalache, equivalent to small +‎ ache (“celery, parsley”).

Noun

smallage (uncountable)

1. Celery in its wild uncultivated form.
   • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, A Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden, page 123:

     Chop the smallage exceeding small and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your posset from the fire: You are to season your Gruel with a little Salt, at the due time; and you may put in a little Nutmeg, and Mace to it.

Synonyms

• march (obsolete)

Translations

wild celery

• Middle English: merche
• Old English: mereċe f