epli

Faroese

FWOTD – 21 August 2019

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːʰplɪ/

Noun

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)

Usage notes

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

Declension

Declension of epli (n24)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	epli	eplið	epli, eplir	eplini
accusative	epli	eplið	epli, eplir	eplini
dative	epli	eplnum, eplinum	eplum	eplunum
genitive	eplis	eplisins	epla	eplanna

Synonyms

• epl
• jørðepli

Derived terms

• súrepli

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛhplɪ]

  Rhymes: -ɛhplɪ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

epli n (genitive singular eplis, nominative plural epli)

1. apple

Declension

Declension of epli (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	epli	eplið	epli	eplin
accusative	epli	eplið	epli	eplin
dative	epli	eplinu	eplum	eplunum
genitive	eplis	eplisins	epla	eplanna

See also

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

Etymology 2

See epill.

Noun

epli

1. indefinite dative singular of epill

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

epli n

(non-standard since 2012)

1. definite plural of eple

Old Norse

Etymology

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)).

Noun

epli n (genitive eplis, plural epli)

1. apple

Declension

Declension of epli

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	epli	eplit	epli	eplin
accusative	epli	eplit	epli	eplin
dative	epli	eplinu	eplum	eplunum
genitive	eplis	eplisins	epla	eplanna

Derived terms

• fjarðepli (“fjord-apple; stone”)

Descendants

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

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “epli”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive