appel

See also: Appel, appèl, and Äppel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɛl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): /əˈpɛl/, /ɑˈpɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

appel (plural appels)

1. (fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.

Hypernyms

• (fencing): feint

Translations

fencing movement

• Finnish: apelli
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Verb

appel (third-person singular simple present appels, present participle appelling, simple past and past participle appelled)

1. Obsolete spelling of appeal.

Anagrams

• Apple, apple, pepla

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch appel, from Middle Dutch appel, from Old Dutch appel, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.pəl/

• Audio:

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Noun

appel (plural appels, diminutive appeltjie)

1. apple

Derived terms

• pynappel

Descendants

• → Xhosa: i-apile

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Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch appel, from Old Dutch appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpəl/

• audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ap‧pel
• Rhymes: -ɑpəl
• Homophone: Appel

Noun

Appel
Apple

appel m (plural appels or appelen, diminutive appeltje n)

1. apple

Derived terms

• aagtappel
• appelaar
• appelboom
• appelboomgaard
• appelboor
• appelcider
• appelflap
• appelgebak
• appelgroen
• appelhof
• appelig
• appelijs
• appelmoes
• appelpunt
• appelsap
• appelsien
• appelspijs
• appeltaart
• appeltaartpunt
• appelteef
• appelwijn
• dennenappel
• doornappel
• emmerappel
• granaatappel
• handappel
• pijnappel
• sinaasappel
• stoofappel
• twistappel

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: appel
  • → Xhosa: i-apile
• Berbice Creole Dutch: apl
• Jersey Dutch: āpel
• Negerhollands: apl
• → Loup A: abel
• → Mahican: ápenes (from the plural form)
• → Malay: apel (Indonesian)

• Indonesian: apêl

• →? Mohegan-Pequot: appece
• → Munsee: áapulash (from the plural form)
• → Papiamentu: apel, appel
• →? Sranan Tongo: apra
  • → Lokono: apra
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: aprá
  • → Caribbean Javanese: aprah
• → Unami: apëlìsh (from the plural form)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch appeel, from Old French apel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈpɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ap‧pel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

appel n (plural appels, diminutive appelletje n)

1. appeal (act of imploring or exhorting; a discourse wherein this is done)

   Christen Democratisch Appèl — Christian Democratic Appeal (the name of a Dutch political party: old spelling with the accent on the -e-)

2. (law) appeal (application for legal review and overturning)

Alternative forms

• appèl (superseded)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: appèl
• → Caribbean Javanese: apèl
• → Indonesian: apèl
• → Papiamentu: apèl

Anagrams

• lappe

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French

Etymology

See the verb appeler (“to call (out)”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛl/

• Audio (France, Paris):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: appelle, appellent, appelles, appels

Noun

appel m (plural appels)

1. call
2. appeal

Derived terms

• appel à la prière
• appel de note
• appel de phares
• appel d’air
• appel d’offres
• appel en absence
• faire appel
• manquer à l’appel
• produit d’appel
• sans appel

 

Related terms

• appelant
• appeler

Descendants

• → English: appel
• → German: Appell
  • → English: Appell
• → Polish: apel
• → Romanian: apel

Further reading

• “appel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• palpe, palpé

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Noun

appel m

1. apple

Alternative forms

• āpel

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: appel (see there for further descendants)
• Limburgish: appel

Further reading

• “appel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “appel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• apple, appyl, appyll, appil, appill, appell, eppel, appul, appull, appulle, eappel
• (Early ME) æppel, æpple, eappel

Etymology

From Old English æppel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from *h₂bl-, the oblique stem of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈapəl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɛpəl/

Noun

appel (plural apples or (rare) applen)

1. fruit, nut
2. apple (fruit of Malus domestica).
3. ball; spheroid

Derived terms

• appeltre

Descendants

• English: apple (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: aipple

References

• “appel, -il, -ul, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

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Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *applu. Compare Old English æppel.

Noun

appel m

1. apple

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr, Hallig: aapel

  Helgoland: Oapel

  Mooring: ååpel

• Saterland Frisian: Appel, Apel
• West Frisian: apel

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Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• appul, apl

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *applu. Compare Old Frisian appel, Old English æppel, Old High German apful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑp.pɑl/

Noun

appel m

1. apple

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Low German: appel
  • German Low German: Appel
    • → German: Appel (colloquial, regional)
  • Plautdietsch: Aupel

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈapəl/

Noun

appel c (plural appels, diminutive appeltsje)

1. apple

Alternative forms

• apel

Derived terms

• sinesappel

Further reading

• “appel”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011