The Germanic and Celtic languages have both an extremely old word for apes and monkeys (apa). Did we have apes in classic europe and is it that the few apes (imported by the Greeks or Romans or Phoenicians) impressed the northern barbarians to remember them for millenia? Where's that word from?
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