Albanian edit

Etymology edit

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By some identified as the source of Ancient Greek ἀπελλόν (apellón).[1]

Noun edit

shpel m (plural shpel, definite shpeli, definite plural shpelë)

  1. black poplar (Populus nigra)

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016), “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor[1], page 40

Further reading edit

  • Newmark, L. (1999), “shpel”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary