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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/pappeln

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pappeln, verb, ‘to babble, prate,’ Modern High German only, an onomatopoetic term (compare French babiller), but linked perhaps to the equivalent Low German babbeln, Dutch babbelen (Middle English babelen, English to babble), whence the Modern High German form may be derived by permutation.