English
love apple
Love apple comes from French pomme d'amour ‘toffee apple, candy apple’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentpomme d'amour‘toffee apple, candy apple’
- Englishearliest quotation 2002love apple
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
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- Frenchc. 1600–presentpomme d'amour‘toffee apple, candy apple’
- Englishearliest quotation 2002love apple
Earliest quotation: 2002, R. Sterling et al., World Food: Greece: “Perhaps the most common vegetable in Greece is the…”
Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- ‘love’
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Proto-Germanic *lubō ‘love’
Proto-West Germanic *lubu
Old English lufu
Middle English love ‘love’
English love
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl
Proto-Germanic *aplaz ‘apple’
Proto-West Germanic *applu ‘apple’
Old English æppel ‘apple’
Middle English appel ‘apple; apple tree’
English apple
Every English word from French pomme d'amour
Today it means
noun Synonym of tomato.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French pomme d'amour / love apple