shpel

Albanian

Etymology

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By some identified as the source of Ancient Greek ἀπελλόν (apellón).[1]

Noun

shpel m (plural shpel, definite shpeli, definite plural shpelë)

  1. black poplar (Populus nigra)

Declension

Declension of shpel
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative shpel shpeli shpel shpeltë
accusative shpelin
dative shpeli shpelit shpelve shpelve
ablative shpelsh

References

  1. ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor‎[1], page 40

Further reading

  • Newmark, L. (1999) “shpel”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
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