English

mapley

From maple + -y.

Formed from maple + -y

Proto-Germanic *mapulaz

Proto-West Germanic *mapul ‘maple tree’

Old English *mapul

Middle English mapel ‘tree of species Acer campestre, sole native…’

English maple

Today it means

adj Resembling a maple tree (genus Acer), its leaf, or its wood.

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