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ÆPPEL

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
ÆPPEL, æpl, appel, apl, eapl, es; m; nom. acc. pl. m. æpplas; nom. acc. pl. n. æppla.
Wright's OE grammar
§54; §57; §219; §255; §276; §397;
an APPLE, fruit generally,
  • Ors. Eng. 1. 3; Bos. 63, note I
    • ;
malum, pomum
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  • Æples gelícnes

    likeness of an apple,

    • Exon. 59 a; Th. 213, 26
      • ;
    • Ph. 230
      • .

  • Æppel unsǽlga, deáþ-beámes ofet

    the unblest apple, fruit of the tree of death,

    • Cd. 30; Th. 40, 10
      • ;
    • Gen. 637
      • .

  • Ða reádan appla

    the red apples;

    mala Punica

    ,
    • Past. 15, 5
      • ;
    • MS. Hat. 19b, 28
      • .

  • Nǽnig móste heora hrórra hrím æpla gedígean

    none of their hardy fruits could withstand the frost;

    occidit moros in pruina

    .
    • Ps. Th. 77, 47
      • .

  • Gením brembel-æppel

    take a bramble-fruit, i. e. a blackberry,

    • L.M. 1, 64; Lchdm, ii. 138, 27
      • .
what is round as an apple, the apple of the eye, a ball, bolus, pill; quidvis globosum, pupilla, globus, bolus, pilula
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  • On ðæs siwenígean eágum beóþ ða æpplas hále, ac ða brǽwas greátigaþ

    in lippi oculis pupillæ sanæ sunt, sed palpebræ grossescunt,

    • Past. 11, 4
      • ;
    • MS. Hat. 15a, 18
      • .

  • Hí scilde swá geornlíce swá swá man déþ ðone æpl on his eágan

    he protected them as carefully as a man does the apple of his eye,

    • Bt. 39, 10; Fox 228, 13
      • .

  • Írenum aplum

    with iron balls,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 56
      • ;
    • Sal. 28
      • .
Etymology
[
Orm. appell
:
R. Gloac. appel
:
Gow. apple
:
O. Frs. appel, m. malum, pomum
:
N. Out. L. Ger. appel, m
:
Ger. M. H. Ger. apfel, m
:
O. H. Ger. aphul, aphol; m
:
Dan. æble, n
:
Swed. æple, n
:
O. Nrs. epli, n
:
Wel. aval
:
Ir. abhall, ubhall
:
Gael. abhal, ubhal
:
Manx ooyl
:
Corn. Arm. aval
:
Lith. obolys
:
O. Slav. jabluko
.]
Derived forms
æppel-bǽre, -bearo, -cyrnel, -fealu, -hús, -leáf, -sceal, -screáda, -þorn, -treów, -tún, -wín, brembel-æppel, eág-, eorþ-, fíc-, finger-, palm-, wudu-
Linked entries
v.  æppyl appel eapl epl.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ÆPPEL.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/707.

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