๐’€ฒ๐’†ณ๐’Š๐’‘

Hittite
๐’€ฒ๐’†ณ๐’Š๐’‘
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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *hโ‚รฉแธฑus, *hโ‚รฉแธฑwos. Cognate with Luwian *๐’Š๐’ช๐’‘ (*az-zu-uลก), *๐’€ธ๐’‹— (*aลกลกu-), Luwian ๐”‘ฎ๐”—” (EQUUS-sa), Lycian ๐Š๐Š–๐Š‚ (esb), Sanskrit เค…เคถเฅเคต (รกล›va), Latin equus, Mycenaean Greek ๐€‚๐€ฆ (i-qo).

Noun

๐’€ฒ๐’†ณ๐’Š๐’‘ โ€ข (ANล E.KUR.RA-us /*ekkus/) c (nominative singular)

  1. horse

References
  • Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, โ†’ISBN, pages 237-239

Luwian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *hโ‚รฉแธฑus, *hโ‚รฉแธฑwos. The form is only securely attested with the sumerogram ANล E.KUR.RA, but a full dative-locative may be attested: see *๐’Š๐’ช๐’‘ (*az-zu-uลก).

Noun

๐’€ฒ๐’†ณ๐’Š๐’‘ (ANล E.KUR.RA-us) (nominative singular)

  1. horse

Usage notes

Also (possibly) attested in the dative-locative plural, though the identification is disputed.[1]

Inflection

References
  1. Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, โ†’ISBN, pages 237-239

Further reading
  • Olav Hackstein, Jared L. Miller & Elisabeth Rieken, editors (2017โ€“), Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Ancient Anatolian Corpus Languages (eDiAna)โ€Ž, Mรผnchen & Marburg
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