godæppel

Old English

Alternative forms

  • gōodaeppel

Etymology

Compound of gōd (“good”) +‎ æppel (“fruit”), perhaps a folk-etymological alteration of coddæppel.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡoːdˌæp.pel/

Noun

gōdæppel m

  1. quince (Cydonia oblonga)[2]

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative gōdæppel gōdæpplas
accusative gōdæppel gōdæpplas
genitive gōdæpples gōdæppla
dative gōdæpple gōdæpplum

References

  1. ^ Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “gōd-æppel”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.
  2. ^ Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “god-æppel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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