The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian

¯a-pa-a-n- (< *Høep- or
*Høebh-) ‘to set moving’
(Catsanicos 1996)
¯a-wi-ir-ni (< *Hùowi-)
‘lamb’ (Catsanicos 1996)
8. Comparison of Hurrian and Indo-European Vocabularies 113
(Pokorny 1959:36—37; Walde
1927—1932.I:55—56; Mann
1984—1987:21; Puhvel
1984— .3:84—86 and
3.224—228; Kloekhorst 2008:
285, 319—321, and 327—
328). *Høen-o-s (> *anos)
‘grandmother’ must be
carefully distinguished from
*Húen-o-s (> *anos) ‘mother’
found in: Hittite an-na-aš
‘mother’; Lycian ẽni ‘mother’;
Latin anna ‘fosther-mother’;
Greek (Hesychius) Pννίς·
‘mother’.
*Høep- (> *ap-) or *Høebh- (>
*abh-) ‘(vb.) to move quickly,
to run, to flow; (n.) (flowing or
running) water, river, stream,
current’ (Pokorny 1959:2 and
51—52; Walde 1927—1932.I:
46—47; Mann 1984—1987:1;
Puhvel 1984— .3:114—115;
Kloekhorst 2008:294—295;
Mayrhofer 1956—1980.I:74—
75). Note: There may have
been two variants of this stem
in Proto-Indo-European: (A)
*Høep- and (B) *Høebh-.
*Hùowi- (> *owi-) ‘sheep’
(Pokorny 1959:784; Walde
1927—1932.I:167; Mann
1984—1987:897; Puhvel
1984— .3:279—280;
Kloekhorst 2008:337—338)
‘grandmother’; Latin anus
‘old woman’; Old High
German ana ‘grandmother’;
Old Prussian ane ‘grandmother’.
Hittite ¯a-aš-ša-aš
‘progeny, issue, offspring,
descendant’ (< *Høons-o-s [cf.
Melchert 1994:163]); ¯a-aššu-
‘king’ (< *Høons-u-),
which Puhvel (1984— .3:
240—246) interprets as being
from ‘Born One’ or ‘Begotten
One’.
Hittite (dat. sg.) ¯a-pa-a
‘stream’, (3rd sg. pres. act.)
¯a-pa-a-iz-zi ‘to make wet, to
moisten’ (?); Palaic (nom. sg.)
¯a-a-ap-na-aš ‘river, stream’;
Luwian (nom. sg.) ¯a-a-pí-iš
‘river’, *¯apā(i)- ‘to irrigate,
to water’, (acc. sg.) ¯a-pa-a-tiin
‘irrigated land’, (acc. pl.)
¯a-a-pí-in-ni-in-za ‘little
river’; Lycian χba(i)- ‘to
irrigate’; Sanskrit Zpas-
‘water’; Latin amnis (< *abni-s)
‘river, stream’; Old Irish
ab, abann ‘river’; Old
Prussian ape ‘river, stream’;
Tocharian B āp ‘water, river,
stream’
Sanskrit ávi-­ ‘sheep’; Greek
–úò, ïqò ‘sheep’; Latin ovis
‘sheep’; Armenian hov-iw
‘shepherd’; Old Irish oí
‘sheep’; Gothic awēþi ‘herd of
sheep’; Old English ēow, ēaw,
ēw ‘sheep’, ēowu, ēowe ‘ewe’,
ēowd, ēowde ‘herd of sheep’;
Old High German ouwi, ou
‘ewe’, ewit, owiti ‘herd of
sheep’; Lithuanian avìs