Re: Elamo-Dravidian

>I have seen a number of connections with Hurro-Urartian. The Goddess
>Innana is non-Sumerian and is related to the Hurrian
>Hannahannas. I have seen the Sumerian river names - Tigris and
>Euphrates are related to the Hurrian hydronyms, suggesting they
>arrived in an area where they already had been named by proto-Euphratean
>(proto-Hurro-Urartian?) speakers. There is also evidence that the words
>related to copper working and smithcraft were also all Hurrian derived.

I have yet to look further into this claim although I can't help
be enchanted by the possibility of H-U substrate in Sumerian.
Perhaps when my life is less disorganized and I finally have some
free time to think about something other than work or rent.

So there are hydronym connections too? Such as what?


- love gLeN


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