epli
Faroese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse epli, from Proto-Germanic *apaliją, *apluz (“apple, fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
epli n (genitive singular eplis, plural epli)
- potato (Solanum tuberosum)
- 1975, Jacob Olsen, Landalæra. Amerika, Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur (publ.), page 79.
- Har verður nógv drivið upp á landbúnaðin, og á gørðunum (haciendas) dyrka teir hveiti, mais, bygg, rís, epli og vín.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1975, Jacob Olsen, Landalæra. Amerika, Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur (publ.), page 79.
- (poetic, biblical) apple
- 1988, Símunartáttur:
- Her Ádóm, tú mín keri, / eg tær tað epli beri, […]
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Usage notes[edit]
Note that an apple is in common usage always referred to as súrepli.
Declension[edit]
n24 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | epli | eplið | epli(r) | eplini |
Accusative | epli | eplið | epli(r) | eplini |
Dative | epli | epl(i)num | eplum | eplunum |
Genitive | eplis | eplisins | epla | eplanna |
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Icelandic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Norse epli, from Proto-Germanic *apaliją, *apluz (“apple, fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.
Noun[edit]
epli n (genitive singular eplis, nominative plural epli)
Declension[edit]
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See epill.
Noun[edit]
epli
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
epli n
(non-standard since 2012)
Old Norse[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *apaliją, *apluz (“apple, fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl. Cognate with Old English æppel, Old Frisian appel, Old Saxon appel, Dutch appel, Old High German apful (German Apfel), Crimean Gothic apel. The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish ubull (Irish úll), Lithuanian obuolys, Proto-Slavic *ablъko (Russian я́блоко (jábloko)).
Noun[edit]
epli n (genitive eplis, plural epli)
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- fjarðepli (“fjord-apple; stone”)
Descendants[edit]
- Icelandic: epli
- Faroese: epli (“apple, potato”)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eple
- Elfdalian: eppel
- Old Swedish: æple
- Swedish: äpple
- Old Danish: æplæ
- Gutnish: äpple
- → Greenlandic: iipili
References[edit]
- “epli”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Faroese terms inherited from Old Norse
- Faroese terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Faroese terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- fo:Bible
- fo:Foods
- fo:Vegetables
- Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛhplɪ
- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɛhplɪ/2 syllables
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Icelandic lemmas
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- Icelandic non-lemma forms
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- is:Foods
- is:Vegetables
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
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- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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