An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Gallapfel

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, G
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

Gallapfel

Galle

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2551301An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, G — GallapfelJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

Gallapfel, masculine, ‘gall, gall-nut,’ first occurs in early Modern High German, from Latin galla, whence also, probably, the equivalent Anglo-Saxon galloc; compare English oak-gall (galloak). See Galle (2.).