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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
- Agnean (exonymic designation for the Agneans, the "Tocharian A" people)
- 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