Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/apô
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This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), compare Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), if the word originally referred to a “water sprite”. Compare Proto-Celtic *abankos (“water creature”), from whence Welsh afanc and Breton avank (“beaver”), Middle Irish abacc (“dwarf”).[1]
Traditionally assumed to be an ancient loanword instead, ultimately probably from an unidentified non-Indo-European language of regions in Africa or Asia where monkeys are native. The same wanderwort may be reflected in Hebrew קוֹף (qōf), Akkadian uqūpu, Egyptian gfj, Middle Persian [script needed] (kpyk' /kabīg/), Sanskrit कपि (kapí), all meaning “monkey, ape, vel sim.”, and Ancient Greek κῆπος (kêpos, “long-tailed monkey”). As Kroonen notes, the lack of an initial velar consonant in Germanic would then imply that the foreign word entered at a very early pre-Germanic stage, such that it was borrowed with an initial laryngeal, either *h₂eb- or *h₃eb-.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*apô m[2]
Inflection
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | *apô | *apaniz |
| vocative | *apô | *apaniz |
| accusative | *apanų | *apanunz |
| genitive | *apiniz | *apanǫ̂ |
| dative | *apini | *apammaz |
| instrumental | *apinē | *apammiz |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ John T. Koch (2020), “49. Natural world”, in Celto-Germanic: Later Prehistory and Post-Proto-Indo-European vocabulary in the North and West[1], 1st edition, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK: University of Wales, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, →ISBN, page 148
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*apan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 31