akeññe

Tocharian B

Etymology

From āke (“edge”) + -ññe. The connection here is to a land on the edge of a country; on the border; the march. Compare Old English Mierce (“Kingdom of Mercia”), Italian Marche (“a region of Italy”), and the etymology for English Ukraine, from Old East Slavic украина (ukraina, “borderland”).

Adjective

akeññe

1. Agnean (exonymic designation for the Agneans, the "Tocharian A" people)
2. pertaining to the border

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “akeññe”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 2