The story
- Old English · derived fromæppel“apple”
- English todayApperknowle
From Old English æppel (“apple”) + cnoll (“knoll, hill”); the later -r- for -l- is a well-recognised interchange of consonants.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishæppel all →
AppletonApplebyappley
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.