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Pierre Lecoq szerint a kelet-iráni aparna nyelv egyes maradványai örményországi parthus jövevényszavak formájában élnek tovább, többségük viszont a manicheus parthusban (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1983, Aparna címszó):

 

 

 

„The Aparna originally spoke an East Iranian language, the traces of which survive in some Parthian loan-words in Armenian such as kari (very, cf. Sogd. k' 'y), margarē (sorcerer, cf. Sogd. m'rkry, Parth. m'rygr; cf. W. Henning, A List of Middle Persian and Parthian Words, BSOAS 9, 1937, p. 85, repr. Acta Iranica 14, p. 565; R. Gauthiot, in MSL 19, 1915, pp. 125–29). More Aparna words may be traced in Manichaean Parthian; e.g., hnd (blind, cf. Western Iranian kwr; for other examples see Henning, Mitteliranisch, pp. 93–94). Their language, however, was eventually replaced by Parthian, a Northwestern Iranian language.

 

No convincing etymology has been yet proposed for the word Aparna. Tomaschek’s derivation from apәrәnāyu-, Pahl. apurnāy is untenable (Pauly-Wissowa, I, 2, col. 2669).”