"apô" meaning in Proto-Germanic

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɑ.pɔːː/
Etymology: 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”). It is however more popular to assume 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 (kapi), all meaning “monkey, ape”, and Ancient Greek κῆπος (kêpos, “long-tailed monkey”). As Kroonen notes, the lack of an initial velar consonant in Germanic implies that the foreign word entered at a very early pre-Germanic stage, such that it was borrowed with an initial laryngeal. Etymology templates: {{der|gem-pro|ine-pro|*h₂ep-||water}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”), {{cog|cel-pro|*abū||river}} Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”), {{cog|cel-pro|*abankos||water creature}} Proto-Celtic *abankos (“water creature”), {{cog|cy|afanc}} Welsh afanc, {{cog|br|avank||beaver}} Breton avank (“beaver”), {{cog|mga|abacc||dwarf}} Middle Irish abacc (“dwarf”), {{glossary|wanderwort}} wanderwort, {{cog|he|קוֹף|tr=qōf}} Hebrew קוֹף (qōf), {{cog|akk|uqūpu}} Akkadian uqūpu, {{cog|egy|gfj}} Egyptian gfj, {{cog|pal||tr=kpyk'|ts=kabīg}} Middle Persian [script needed] (kpyk' /⁠kabīg⁠/), {{cog|sa|कपि}} Sanskrit कपि (kapi), {{cog|grc|κῆπος||long-tailed monkey}} Ancient Greek κῆπος (kêpos, “long-tailed monkey”), {{pre-Germanic}} pre-Germanic Inflection templates: {{gem-decl-noun|g=m}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], apô [nominative, singular], apaniz [nominative, plural], apô [singular, vocative], apaniz [plural, vocative], apanų [accusative, singular], apanunz [accusative, plural], apiniz [genitive, singular], apanǫ̂ [genitive, plural], apini [dative, singular], apammaz [dative, plural], apinē [instrumental, singular], apammiz [instrumental, plural]
  1. ape, monkey Wikipedia link: Brill Publishers, Germanic parent language Tags: masculine, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-apô-gem-pro-noun-ub7KBSzW Categories (other): Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header

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  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/apô",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        "ape, monkey"
      ],
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      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *apō\nOld English: apa\nMiddle English: ape, eape, aape\nEnglish: ape\nScots: ape, aip\nOld Frisian: *apa\nNorth Frisian: aab (Föhr-Amrum), ååwe (Mooring)\nSaterland Frisian: Oape\nWest Frisian: aap\nOld Saxon: apo\nMiddle Low German: āpe\nLow German: Ape\nGerman Low German: Aap\nPlautdietsch: Op\nOld Dutch: *apo\nMiddle Dutch: āpe\nDutch: aap\nAfrikaans: aap\nOld High German: affo\nMiddle High German: affe\nAlemannic German: Aff\nCentral Franconian:\nHunsrik: Aff\nGerman: Affe\nLuxembourgish: Af\nRhine Franconian:\nPennsylvania German: Aff\nYiddish: אַפֿע (afe)\n→ Proto-Slavic: *opъ\n⇒ Proto-Slavic: *opica (see there for further descendants)"
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      "name": "der"
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      "source": "inflection",
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  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/apô",
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        "Proto-Germanic nouns",
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        "Proto-Germanic terms with IPA pronunciation",
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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.