The Indo-European Elements in Hurrian

84 7. Hurrian Vocabulary
Derivatives: attárdi ‘fatherhood’; attašši ‘patrimony’
UR
*[awalli] ‘measure of surface: ca. 3600 m 2 = one IKU’
CA
*[awari] [P -3] ‘field, steppe’
EL awari UG [9 w r]
*[azúγi] [P -2] ‘pine-tree’
EL ašu¯i . Used for making smoke.
*[azuγi] ‘meal, eating-time’
CA . Translates Hittite adannaš me¯ur ‘eating-time’.
*[amami] ‘figurine’
EL azammi
Letter/Phoneme *b
The phoneme */b/ is extremely elusive word-initially. The alternations in Hurrian between ,
and make it possible to reconstruct *b (probably at the Proto-Hurrian stage). In the
historically attested “dialects” of Hurrian, it seems that #b- fused with either *w or *p, in
coherence with the general absence of voiced initials in Hurrian.
*[baban] ‘mountain’
EL pabani UG [p b n].
UR
*[babanγi] ‘mountainous’
EL paban¯i UG [p b n x].
*[baγ-] ‘to destroy’
CA .
*[baγri] ‘good, beautiful’
EL wa¯ri
CA ‘excellent’.
*[bandarini] ‘cook’
CA
*[bandi] ‘right (side)’
EL wandi
‘to the right side of’
*[barini] ‘baker’
CA
*[baz-] ‘(intr.) to enter; (tr.) to bring (in)’
EL waš-
*[bi] ‘P2 Sg., thou’
EL we
*[billi] ‘canal’
CA ; NEU . Translates Hittite amiyara- ‘canal’, PA5. Cf. pala
‘canal’.