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æppel

  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
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æppel, nom. ac. pl. æp(p)la, ap(p)la, æpplas (apples of eye); gen. pl. appla, æpplena; m.: appla (-u, v. finger-æppel), æppel (? æppel mala,
    Wrt. Voc. ii. 54, 40); n.
Wright's OE grammar
§54; §57; §219; §255; §276; §397;
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an apple (in a special and in a general sense as in oak-apple)
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  • Æppel

    pomum,

      Ælfc. Gr. 31, 4.

  • Ęppel

    malum,

      Kent. Gl. 962.

  • Scoldon hangigan reáde apla (

    mala punica

    ). Hwæt is getácnod ðurh ðá reádan apla (appla, l. 13)? Se æppel bið betogen mid rinde,
      Past. 95, 3-6.

  • On ðæs æples (

    pomi

    ) gewilnunge,
      309, 17.

  • Eaples,

      Sat. 411.

  • Æppeles seáw,

      Lch. i. 350, 2.
  • Æples, ii. 132, 11.

  • Æpples,

      111, 36, 31.

  • Sing ðæt galdor on ðone æppel,

      38, 4.

  • Gebrǽdedne æppel, súme æppel, ii. 132,

      14, 15.

  • Of ðám treówe ðe man háteþ mórbeám nim æppel . . . hwítne æppel ðe ðonne gyt ne reádige, i. 330,

      19-22, 25.

  • Ðá ðá Adam geæt ðone forbodenan æppel,

      Hml. Th. ii. 240, 21.

  • Líðe æppla (appla,

    v. l.) mitia poma,

      Ælfc. Gr. 274, 13.

  • Gecyrnlede (-u in margin) appla

    mala granata,

      Hpt. Gl. 496, 60: An. Ox. 2, 258.

  • Ðá Affracaniscan æppla

    mala punica,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 83, 52.

  • Æpla,

      Lch. ii. 244, 2.

  • Æpplena

    pomorum,

      Ps. L. 78, 1.

  • Appla

    dactilorum,

      An. Ox. 2394.

  • Wið gréne æpla,

      Lch. ii. 208, 10. v. milisc in Dict.
an apple-shaped object
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  • Æpples

    sphaerae,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 44.

  • Cnuca tósomne ðám gelíce ðe ðú ánne æppel wyrce, Lch. i. 250, 10. II a.

    an eye-ball

    :-- Gif se æppel léf biþ,
      Bt. 38, 5; F. 204, 29.

  • Se óðer æppel wæs geémtigod, and se óðer hangode gehál æt his hleóre,

      Hml. S. 21, 280.

  • Beóð ðá æplas hále . . . sió scearpnes ðæs æples (æpples,Hatt. MS.) . . . Ðurh ðone æpl ðæs eágean,

      Past. 68, 2, 4, 17.
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v. cod-, corn-, hunig-, weax-æppel.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “æppel.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/37877.

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