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purame (< *bh3-) ‘servant,<br />

slave’<br />

pu/wu-ú-ru (< *bh3-) ‘strong’<br />

(Catsanicos 1996)<br />

8. Comparison of <strong>Hurrian</strong> and <strong>Indo</strong>-<strong>European</strong> Vocabularies 125<br />

*bher-/*bhor-/*bh3- ‘to bear,<br />

to carry’ (Pokorny 1959:128—<br />

132; Walde 1927—1932.II:<br />

153—157; Mann 1984—<br />

1987:72, 73, 74, 74—75, 75,<br />

94, 95, 114, 115—116, 116,<br />

125)<br />

*bher-ĝh-/*bhor-ĝh-/*bh3-ĝh-<br />

‘(adj.) high, tall; great, strong;<br />

(n.) mounta<strong>in</strong>, hill’ (Pokorny<br />

1959:140—141; Walde<br />

1927—1932.II:172—174;<br />

Mann 1984—1987:74 and<br />

125; Kloekhorst 2008:636—<br />

637)<br />

‘perception, knowledge,<br />

thought, understand<strong>in</strong>g,<br />

<strong>in</strong>telligence’; Greek ðåýèïìáé<br />

‘to learn of’; Lithuanian budjti<br />

‘to be awake’; Old Church<br />

Slavic bÞdrti ‘to be awake’,<br />

buditi ‘to awaken’, bÞdrÞ<br />

‘watchful’; Gothic *biudan <strong>in</strong>:<br />

ana-biudan ‘to order, to<br />

command’, faur-biudan ‘to<br />

forbid’; Old English bēodan<br />

‘to offer’, on-bēodan ‘to<br />

announce, to tell; to<br />

command’, for-bēodan ‘to<br />

forbid’; Old Saxon biodan ‘to<br />

order, to offer’; Old High<br />

German biotan ‘to order, to<br />

offer’, far-biotan ‘to forbid’<br />

Sanskrit bh0tya-­ ‘a servant, a<br />

dependent’; PāJi bhasa- (<<br />

bh0tya-) ‘hirel<strong>in</strong>g, servant,<br />

soldier’; Bengali bha0 ‘soldier,<br />

servant’; Lithuanian bérnas<br />

‘lad, boy; hired man, farm-<br />

hand’<br />

Hittite pár-ku-uš ‘high’;<br />

Sanskrit b0hánt- ‘high, tall,<br />

great, strong’; Avestan<br />

b‹r‹zant- ‘great, lofty’;<br />

Armenian barjr ‘high’; Welsh<br />

bre ‘hill’; Gothic *bairgs<br />

‘mounta<strong>in</strong>’, baurgs ‘city,<br />

town’; Old Icelandic bjarg,<br />

berg ‘mounta<strong>in</strong>, rock’, borg<br />

‘stronghold, fortification,<br />

castle; fortified town, city’;<br />

Old English beorh, beorg ‘hill,<br />

mounta<strong>in</strong>’, burg, bur(u)h<br />

‘fortified place, (fortified)<br />

town, city’; Old High German<br />

berg ‘mounta<strong>in</strong>’, burg<br />

‘fortified place, castle, city’;<br />

Tocharian B pärkare ‘long’;<br />

Greek ðýñãïò ‘tower’ (pre-

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