shpel

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Albanian

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

Noun

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

  1. black poplar (Populus nigra)

Declension

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References

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  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

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