appel
Middle English
/ˈapəl/
noun
Definitions
- Any sort or variety of fruit or nut.
- The apple fruit of Malus domestica.
- A round object of similar size to an apple.
- A protrusion or projection, especially a round one.
- (Biblical) The fruit born by the Tree of Knowledge.
- (rare) Abbotship; abbacy.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English æppel (apple, anything round, fruit in general, pill, any kind of fruit, apple of the eye, bolus, fruit, ball) inherited from *applu inherited from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (apple) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl (apple, apple-tree).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂ébōl
Gloss
apple, apple-tree
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Appleby English
- Appleton English
- Appley English
- Appleyard English
- apple English
- apple fly English
- apple mango English
- apple tree English
- apple wine English
- apple-bearing English
- apple-berry English
- apple-knocker English
- apple-like English
- apple-mush English
- appleade English
- applecart English
- applecrab English
- appled English
- applehood English
- appleish English
- applejack English
- applejohn English
- appleless English
- applelicious English
- applelike English
- applesauce English
- applewoman English
- applewood English
- appley English
- applish English
- crabapple English
- earthapple English
- eye-apple English
- hedgeapple English
- horseapple English
- love apple English
- mayapple English
- nonapple English
- pineapple English
- äpüli Finnish
- ἄμπελος Ancient Greek
- *h₂ébōl Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱwṓ Proto-Indo-European
- *apaliją Proto-Germanic
- *aplaz Proto-Germanic
- *apluz Proto-Germanic
- アップル Japanese
- eagæppel Old English
- eorþæppel Old English
- fingeræppel Old English
- æppel Old English
- æppelbære Old English
- æppelleaf Old English
- æppeltrēow Old English
- æppelwin Old English
- appeltre Middle English
- tre Middle English
- býr Old Norse
- epli Old Norse
- *ablъko Proto-Slavic
- แอปเปิล Thai
- Apple Cebuano
- *appul Old High German
- apful Old High German
- epal Malay
- *applu gmw-pro
- *appel Old Dutch
- appel Old Dutch
- আপেল Assamese
- *abalo- Proto-Celtic
- *abalom Proto-Celtic
- appel Old Saxon
- 애플 Korean
- ihhabhula Zulu
- aipple Scots
- obuolys Lithuanian
- আপেল Bengali
- abōļ Marshallese
- appel Old Frisian
- apel Tok Pisin
- lihhabhula Swati
- āporo Maori
- Appel Central Franconian
- ꠀꠄꠚꠟ Sylheti
- apol Bislama
- aapul Fiji Hindi
- apel Crimean Gothic
- އާފަލު Divehi, Dhivehi, Maldivian
- aapu Inupiaq
- aapuq Inupiaq
- apo East Futuna