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What was the word for "apple" in old English?
Before the word "fruit" was introduced (together with many French words after 1066), "apple" meant any kind of fruit. With two similar words coexisting, the meaning of "apple" shifted to its actual definition. Do you know what was the old word for an apple?
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- TaivoLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
æppel. While "æppel" could indeed mean "fruit" in a general sense, its primary sense was "apple". Compare modern English "deer". Its primary sense in North America is one of the two species of Odocoileus, but it can also be used in a more general sense, so that moose, elk, caribou, reindeer, etc. are also all "deer". So in Old English, æppel meant "apple", but it could also be used in a more general sense for other types of fruit, although other types of fruit were rare in England at the time.
Source(s): I have a PhD in Linguistics and teach History of English at a major US university - riesgoLv 45 years ago
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Sometimes appul, other times appel or appele or apel or apele. In Hebrew, the word is Snake Fruit.
- Hermes711Lv 61 decade ago
hmm, maybe the "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" meant eat fruit everyday then.
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