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
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative shpel shpel shpeli shpeltë
accusative shpelin
dative shpeli shpelve shpelit shpelvet
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, page 40

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