epli

From Old Norse epli, from Proto-Germanic *apaliją, *apluz (“apple, fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːʰplɪ/

epli n (genitive singular eplis, plural epli)

1. potato (Solanum tuberosum)
   • 1975, Jacob Olsen, Landalæra. Amerika, Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur (publ.), page 79.

     Har verður nógv drivið upp á landbúnaðin, og á gørðunum (haciendas) dyrka teir hveiti, mais, bygg, rís, epli og vín.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (poetic, biblical) apple
   • 1988, Símunartáttur:

     Her Ádóm, tú mín keri, / eg tær tað epli beri, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Note that an apple is in common usage always referred to as súrepli.

• epl
• jørðepli

• súrepli

• IPA^(key):

  Rhymes: -ɛhplɪ

From Old Norse epli, from Proto-Germanic *apaliją, *apluz (“apple, fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.

epli n (genitive singular eplis, nominative plural epli)

1. apple

• adamsepli
• eplasafi
• eplasaft
• eplatré
• jarðepli
• bíta í það súra epli

See epill.

epli

1. indefinite dative singular of epill

epli n

(non-standard since 2012)

1. definite plural of eple

From Proto-Germanic *apaliją, *apluz (“apple, fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl. Cognate with Old English æppel, Old Frisian appel, Old Saxon appel, Dutch appel, Old High German apful (German Apfel), Crimean Gothic apel. The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish ubull (Irish úll), Lithuanian obuolys, Proto-Slavic *ablъko (Russian я́блоко (jábloko)).

epli n (genitive eplis, plural epli)

1. apple

• fjarðepli (“fjord-apple; stone”)

• Icelandic: epli
• Faroese: epli (“apple, potato”)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eple
• Elfdalian: eppel
• Old Swedish: æple
  • Swedish: äpple
• Old Danish: æplæ
  • Danish: æble
    • Norwegian Bokmål: eple
  • Scanian: æble
• Gutnish: äpple
• → Greenlandic: iipili

• “epli”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press