Re: [tied] Re: Decoding Meluhhan dialect

John:

>Tabira in Sumerian is acknowledged as coming from a Hurrian
>substrate. It appears that Hurrian metalworkers were the
>intermediary between PIE and Sumerian for a number of words (eg.
>Sumerian gigir and PIE *kwelkos, for example).

What's the Hurrian version of the "wheel" word supposed to be? Is /tabira/
attested in Hurrian?


- love gLeN


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