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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Reflecting a root *h₂pel-, possibly also in Latin pōpulus (“poplar”). Alternatively from a Proto-Albanian *ašpella, whence Albanian shpel (“black poplar”), with assimilation of /-sp-/ to /-(p)p-/, characteristic of Laconian.
Noun
ἀπελλόν • (apellón) n
- (hapax) black poplar
- Synonym: αἴγειρος (aígeiros)
5th century C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Α.5949:ἀπελλόν· αἴγειρος, ὅ ἐστι εἶδος δένδρου- apellón; aígeiros, hó esti eîdos déndrou
- apellón: black poplar, which is a kind of tree
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀπελλόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 115
- ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor, page 40
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