Reconstruction:Gaulish/abalo-

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Gaulish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *abūl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl. Akin to Old Irish ubull (Irish úll), Old English æppel (English apple) and Old Church Slavonic аблъко (ablŭko), all carrying the same meaning.^[1]

Noun

*abalo- n

apple
- 449, “Endlicher's Glossary”, in Alderik H. Blom, editor, Études celtiques, volume 37 (in Latin), published 2011, pages 161 of 159–181, line 10:
  Avallo. Poma
  avallo is an apple.

Declension

declension of Gaulish/abalo- (Transalpine)

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abalon	abaloi
Vocative	abale	abaloi
Accusative	abalon	abalōs¹, abalūs²
Genitive	abali	abalon
Dative	abalū	abalobo
Instrumental	abalū	abaluis¹, abalūs²
Locative	abalei¹, abalē²	abalois

¹ early forms, ² late forms

Derived terms^[2]

Latin: *acer-abulus (literally “maple-apple”) (for attested acterabulus and acerafulus)^[3]
- French: érable (“maple”)
Latin: Avalono
- French: Ollon
  
  Bénivay-Ollon on French Wikipedia
Latin: Aulonum, Olonum
- Old French: Oluns, Oulon, Olun, Olons
  - Middle French: Oullon
    - French: Ollon
      
      Ollon on Wikipedia

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*abalo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 23
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “abalo-, aballo-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 29
^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 264

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*abalo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 23

[2] Delamarre, Xavier (2003) “abalo-, aballo-”, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page 29

[3] Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, page 264

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