The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian

120 8. Comparison of Hurrian and Indo-European Vocabularies
-ma (< *mē/*mō) negative
suffix
madi (< *mod-) ‘wisdom,
intelligence’;
ma-a-t- (< *mod-) ‘to show
wisdom, to be wise’
(Catsanicos 1996)
ma-al-la-ti (< *mol-) ‘chopping
board’ (Catsanicos 1996)
*mē (prohibitive/negative
particle) ‘do not; no, not’
(Pokorny 1959:703; Walde
1927—1932.II:236—237;
Mann 1984—1987:738)
*med-/*mod- ‘to measure, to
measure out; to estimate, to
reckon’ (Pokorny 1959:705—
706; Walde 1927—1932.II:
259; Mann 1984—1987:739,
739—740, 740, 782—783;
Puhvel 1984— .6:167—168)
*mel-/*mol-/*mC- ‘to rub, to
crush, to grind’ (Pokorny
1959:716—719; Walde
1927—1932.II:284—291;
Mann 1984—1987:728, 749,
750, 751—752, 752, 753, 773,
773—774, 774, 775—776,
776, 776—777, 777, 777—
778, 791—792, 792—793,
793, 815, 816; Kloekhorst
2008:547—548)
stressed particle me; Greek
(Thessalian) μά = δέ ‘but’
Sanskrit mZ ‘do not; not, that
not, lest, would that not’;
Greek μή ‘do not; no, not’;
Armenian mi ‘do not’;
Tocharian A (prohibitive and
negative particle) mā ‘not, no’,
(prohibitive particle) mar ‘do
not’, also used as a negative
prefix as the equivalent of
English ‘un-’
Greek ìÝäïìáé ‘to provide for,
to be mindful of’; Latin
meditor ‘to think over, to
consider’, modus ‘measure,
standard of measure’; Hittite
(gen. sg.) mi-te-eš-na-aš
‘measure, weight’, (abl. sg.)
mi-id-na-az ‘measure, counsel,
ordinance, resolve, device’;
Gothic mitan ‘to measure’;
Old Icelandic meta ‘to reckon,
to estimate’; Old English
metan ‘to measure, to mark
off, to mete out, to compare’;
Old High German mezzan ‘to
measure, to compare, to
compute’, mez ‘measure’
Hittite ma-al-la-i ‘to crush, to
grind’, me-ma-al ‘meal’;
Sanskrit m0zZti, m0záti ‘to
crush, to grind’, m0dú-­ ‘soft,
delicate, tender, pliant, mild,
gentle, weak, feeble’, mlZyati
‘to wither, to fade’; Greek
Pìáëä%íù ‘to soften’, Pìáëüò
‘soft, weak, feeble’, ìáëáêüò
‘soft’, ìáëÜóóù ‘to make
soft’, ìýëç ‘mill, handmill’,
ìýëïò ‘millstone’; Latin molō
‘to grind’, mollis ‘soft, tender,
pliant, supple, flexible,
yielding’, mola ‘millstone’,