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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:
>
> In Hurri,
>
> Varuna is uruwaanasiil [uruwanosil] Indra is indara [int?ara]
>
> To be frank, I can't believe a second that Hurri borrowed these
> words from Indic.
>
> It's the other way that sounds possible : Hurri > Indo-iranian.
>
> Indo-Iranians came empty-handed and got what they discovered on
> the spot.
Pretending, for a moment, that Varuna and Indra really are
loans from Hurrian, we still have all of these comparisons
besides:
Assura (Vedic Asura, Avestan Ahura)
Akni (Vedic Agni)
Miitra (Sanskrit & Avestan Mitra)
Naattiia (Sanskrit Nasatya)
Suriiaa (Vedic Surya)
Marutta (Vedic Marut)
aika - one (Sanskrit eka)
auanni - a stableman (Sanskrit ac,vasani)
na, nawa - nine (Sanskrit nava)
panza - five (Sanskrit panca)
atta - seven (Sanskrit sapta)
tera, tiera, tri - three (Sanskrit tri)
wartanna - a turn, a turning (Sanskrit vartate 'he turns')
waanna - a stadium;
babru - describing colours of horses (Sanskrit babhru 'brown')
parita - describing colours of horses (Sanskrit palita 'gray')
pinkara - describing colours of horses (Sanskrit pingala 'reddish')
marijannu - a charioteer, a young warrior (Vedic marya 'a young man,
a soldier');
Tirgutawiya - a woman's name
Abiratta - a king's name (Sanskrit abhi-ratha 'facing chariots')
Nobody is going to believe that _all_ of these are Hurrian
loans to Indo-Aryan as well, and so unarguably some Indo-
Aryan gods were adopted by Hurrians, even if we do indulge
your thinking that Indra and Varuna aren't Indo-Aryan.
Your moment of indulgence is over, however, for where else
in the Hurrian world besides Mitanni, and only mentioned
alongside other patently Indo-Aryan gods and loanwords, do
we find Varuna and Indra worshipped?
The logical conclusion is obvious.
David