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[Stefan Georg]

on *ek'wos

>>-- but it doesn't mean "donkey" in Anatolian, the earliest attested IE
>>language of the area, and Armenian is intrusive there.

>	Not really. It does, if we take into account the Sumerogramme
>	ANShE.KUR.RA -

>		ANShE 'Esel, ass'
>		KUR 'Berg, mountain'
>		RA - genitive-morpheme

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). The
fact that Hittites use Sumerograms and Akkadograms does not mean that they
didn't meant them to be read aloud as native Hittite words (nor does it
mean that they used the Sumerian/Akkadian terms as a loan-element).

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