mispel

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Inherited from Middle Dutch mispele, mespele, from Old Dutch *mespila, from Proto-West Germanic *mespilā, from Late Latin mespila.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪs.pəl/

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• Hyphenation: mis‧pel
• Rhymes: -ɪspəl

mispel f (plural mispels or mispelen, diminutive mispeltje n or mispelke n)

1. medlar; any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus
2. medlar (fruit)

   M'n pa houdt van rotte vruchten: mispels, bah!

   My dad likes rotten fruit: medlars, yuck!

• → Papiamentu: mespel, mespu, mispel
• → Sranan Tongo: mispu
  • → Aukan: mesupu

• mëspel, nëspel, mëstel, mistel

Inherited from Old High German mespil, mespila.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈmis̠pəl/

mispel f

1. medlar

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• German: Mispel, Mißpel, Mespel, Meßpel (till later 18th century often), Espel, Hespel, Haspel, Nespel, Nispel, Wispel (regional)
• → Old Czech: mišpile, mišpule, nyšpule
  • Czech: mišpule, older often nyšpule
• → Hungarian: naspolya, formerly by region náspolya, naszpolya, nászpolya, noszpolya. lasponya, lásponya, miszpulya, nespolya
• → Polish: nieszpułka, nieszpułk, nieszpuła, niesplik, myszpuła
• → Slovak: mišpuľa, dialectally nyšpuľa, nešpuľa
• → Lower Sorbian: hušpula, rušpula
• → Upper Sorbian: nyšpula, nyšpla, nyspla, myšpla