Re: Truth, Hittite

Interesting word for truth, see a "not" + lethe
"forget" + ia which seems to function as a marker for
abstract qualities and collectivitites
but someone else will have to take it back to IE for
you


--- Francisco Antonio Doria <doriagen@...>
wrote:

> Is there a word that would reasonably, safely be
> translated as truth, in Hittite? I know that there
> is no indo-european word for the concept. I'm
> checking on the possible origins of Gk alétheia -
> Apasa and Millawanda were peripheral to the Hittite
> empire, and were the places where Philosophy begins.
>
> Francisco Antonio Doria
>
> (I'm not a linguist; my PhD is in mathematical
> physics and most of my work has to do with the
> foundations of axiomatized sciences.)
>
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