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.
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- 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
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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