Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/apô

Etymology
Possibly derived from, compare 🇨🇬, if the word originally referred to a "water sprite". Compare 🇨🇬, from whence 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. 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 may be reflected in 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all meaning “monkey, ape”, and 🇨🇬. As Kroonen notes, the lack of an initial velar consonant in Germanic implies that the foreign word entered at a very early stage, such that it was borrowed with an initial laryngeal.

Noun

 * 1)  ape, monkey