Horses

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Miguel and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <mcv at wxs.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 7:44 PM

> Stefan Georg <Georg at home.ivm.de> wrote:

>> That's Sumerian, and not Anatolian. (aside: the genitive morpheme is .A
>> only; the writing .RA has been used by specialists to argue that this term
>> is not really Sumerian, but pseudo-Sumerian invented by Akkadian-speaking
>> scribes. I'd be grateful if some specialist could confirm/debunk this).

[MCV]
> If I look at Thomsen's Sumerian quotes (e.g. from the Gudea
> inscriptions), I see many cases of this kind of spelling (e.g.
> Gudea cyl. A XX 23: {d}A.nun.na "Anuna Gods", i.e. "seed" (<a>)
> "of the prince" (<nun-a(k)>)

> Recently on the ANE list, Bob Whiting ("Re: ANE Horses in North
> Syria") wrote that the Sumerian word for "horse" was *<zizi>,
> written descriptively (not phonetically) as <ans^e-kur.ra>
> "foreign equid/donkey".

[PR]
In this connection, one might want to notice Egyptian s(j)s(j), 'hurry', and
ssm, 'horse'; could these be connected with IE *se:i-, 'throw'?

Pat

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