akeññe
Tocharian B edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
akeññe
Further reading edit
- 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