appel

See also: Appel, appèl, and Äppel

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal.

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

Verb

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

1. Obsolete spelling of appeal.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

appel (plural appels)

1. Obsolete spelling of apple.

Anagrams

• Apple, apple, pepla

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch appel, 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): /ˈa.pəl/

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Noun

appel (plural appels, diminutive appeltjie)

1. apple

Derived terms

• 'n appeltjie te skil hê
• pynappel

Related terms

• appelboom
• appelwyn

Descendants

• → Xhosa: i-apile

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): /ˈɑ.pəl/

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

Noun

Appel
Apple

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

1. apple (Malus domestica, fruit or tree)

   Synonym: ijsappel (Suriname)

2. (Suriname) wax apple (Syzygium samarangense)

   Synonym: djamboe semarang

Derived terms

• aagtappel
• aardappel
• appelaar
• appelbeignet
• appelbes
• appelboom
• appelboomgaard
• appelboor
• appelbrandewijn
• appelcider
• appelflap
• appelgebak
• appelgroen
• appelhof
• appelig
• appelijs
• appelkruimeltaart
• appelmoes
• appelpunt
• appelsap
• appelsien
• appelspijs
• appeltaart
• appelteef
• appelvink
• appelwang
• appelwijn
• ciderappel
• dennenappel
• doornappel
• een appel en een ei
• een appeltje te schillen hebben
• emmerappel
• galappel
• granaatappel
• handappel
• ijsappel
• oogappel
• pijnappel
• sinaasappel
• stoofappel
• twistappel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: appel
  • → Xhosa: i-apile
• Berbice Creole Dutch: apl
• Jersey Dutch: āpel
• Negerhollands: apl
• >? Sranan Tongo: apra
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: aprá
  • → Caribbean Javanese: aprah
  • → Kari'na: apara
  • → Lokono: apra
• → 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
• → Unami: apëlìsh (from the plural form)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch appeel, from Old French apel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈpɛl/

• Audio:

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• 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)

   Synonym: beroep

3. (military) roll call (muster of troops at which names are read out, to see if all are present)

Alternative forms

• appèl (superseded)

Derived terms

• ochtendappel
• op het appel verschijnen

Related terms

• appelleren

Descendants

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

Anagrams

• lappe

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛl/

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

Noun

appel m (plural appels)

1. call
2. appeal

Derived terms

• appel à la prière
• appel d'air
• appel de note
• appel de phares
• appel d'offres
• appel en absence
• centre d'appels
• 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

Limburgish

Noun

appel m

1. Veldeke spelling of Ape̩l

Derived terms

• appelsien
• ougsappel

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

Inflection

Strong masculine noun

	singular	plural
nominative	appel	appele
accusative	appel	appele
genitive	appels	appele
dative	appele	appelen

Alternative forms

• āpel

Descendants

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

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈɛpəl/

Noun

appel (plural apples or (rare) applen)

1. fruit, nut
2. apple (fruit of Malus domestica).
   • c. 1378, William Langland, Piers Plowman:

     I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple.

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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 8 July 2018.

Old English

Noun

appel m

1. alternative form of æppel

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

  Sylt: Aapel

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

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

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