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