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Some Hittite Etymologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Clive H. Carruthers
Clive H. Carruthers*
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McGill University
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Abstract

[The Indo-European affinities of the Hittite language being now generally accepted as proved by the inflectional forms and most of the usual criteria, the primary desideratum of linguistic scholars is the further association of Indo-European etymologies with the known Hittite vocabulary, which has so far proceeded more slowly. The subjoined etymologies are offered in the hope of adding something to our identification of the elements in the Hittite word-list.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 1930 , pp. 159 - 163
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Copyright © 1930 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Cf. Weidner, Stud. 124; Forrer, Forsch. 1. 46.

2 Friedrich, ZA NF 1. 162, 172f.

3 Sommer, BoSt. 7. 15; Friedrich, AO 24, 3. 8 .5.

4 Boisacq, Dict. Etym. s.v.

5 Hübschmann, Armen. Gram. 1. 438.

6 Delaporte, Éléments de la Grammaire Hittite; Sturtevant, AJP 50. 360 (1929).

7 Sturtevant 362–3.

8 E.g. katkalenu- ‘wet, pour over’; wewak- ‘ask’; wantewantemaš ‘lightning’; halhaltumariš 'corner(stone'); kunkunuzzi 'diorite'; purpuraš ‘lump, mass’; tetanaš ‘hair’, etc.

9 Forrer ap. Kretschmer, KF. 1. 310.

10 Sommer, BoSt. 7. 60 ff.

11 Cf. Sturtevant 364.

12 E. g. kuwapi ‘somewhere’, kuwapit ‘where’, kuwat ‘why’, kuwapitta ‘everywhere’, kuwašk- ‘strike’.

13 Zimmern, OLZ, 25. 297. Dat.sg. eš-he (KBo. 3. 34. 1. 25) probably shows that the initial vowel is not original i.

14 For connections, see Walde, LEW 2 s.v.

15 J. Schmidt, Pluralbild. 78.

16 Bartholomae, AIWb. 281 ff; v. Bradke, ZDMG 40. 347.

17 Walde-Pokorny, VWIS sub *es- ‘be’.

18 Brugmann, Ber. d. Sächs. Ges. 60. 67.

19 Sturtevant, Language 3. 121–2 (1927), Lang. 4. 160 ff. (1928).

20 ZF 1. 9 ff.

21 E.g irhaš ‘boundary’, lahhaš ‘battle’, walk- ‘strike’, etc.

22 Weidner, Stud. 130 (Leipziger Semitistische Studien 7. 1–2).

23 Friedrich, ZA NF 3. 185, 202; Götze, KF 1. 223.

24 Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 514.

25 Boisacq, Dict. Etym. s.v. .

26 Language 3. 114 (1927), cf. also Sturtevant, AJP 50. 363 (1929).

27 Walde-Pokorny, loc. cit.

28 Tenner, Hethitischer Annalentext des Königs Muršiliš II 19.

29 KBo 4.4.3.70. MI.KAM-az-ma-at-kan še-e-na-ah-aš QA.TAM.MA e-eš-zi.

30 Tenner 1. 9–10, 16, 20.

31 Language 5. 139 ff. (1929).

32 Walde-Pokorny VWIS 459 (2 *sě-).

33 Hrozný, SH 7; Götze, Hattušiliš 131.

34 Hrozný, BoSt. 3. 170; Friedrich, ZA NF 1. 16.

35 AJSLL 44. 228.

36 Götze, Hattušiliš 69.

37 Sturtevant, Language 3. 121 (1927); Language 4. 151 (1928).