Animals & plants

apple

Source:*jablъkoProto-Slaviccertain

Polish and Czech lost the yer after l (jabłko, jablko); Russian, Ukrainian and BCS have a vowel there.

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English

apple

Polish

jabłko

ˈjapkɔ

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
я́блокоjabloko
ˈjabləkəinherited
Ukrainian
я́блукоjabluko
ˈjablukɔinherited
Polish
jabłko
ˈjapkɔinherited
Czech
jablko
ˈjabl̩koinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
jabukaјабука
ˈjabukainherited
English
apple
Distant English relative — Apple and *jablъko share a North European word for the fruit.