āppo

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *āppo, either inherited from an earlier Proto-Indo-European nursery word or a nursery word itself. Compare Armenian ափի (apʻi), Ancient Greek ἄπφα (áppha), and Tocharian A āp.

Noun

āppo ?

1. father

   Synonym: pācer

   Coordinate terms: ammakki, mācer (“mother”)

Related terms

• appakke

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “āppo”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 47