An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/pappeln

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Pappel

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

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2519437An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, P — pappelnJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

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.