Mark

Given that some version of Hurrian seems to have been the language of
the world's first farmers, I wonder if this came from this source
into the later language of Turkish....

Thoughts anyone?

Regards

John

--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:
> The same is used in Turkish e.g. anneanne (grandmother). Word for
mother
> in KBal
> are ana, amma, inna, innaka, innakay etc.
>
> John wrote:
>
> > Mark wrote
> >
> > > simply saying that Ashtar is Venus leaves out the meaningful
> > > question "what does the word mean?". The Hurrian version also
seems
> > > like a duplicated word like "mother of mothers".
> >
> > Hannahannah meant "Grandmother" in Hurrian. In this case she was
> > frequently called "The Mother of All Living" - a title also of the
> > Sumerian Goddess Ninhursag. *Athtar is linked to PIE *ister (for
> > English star), and seems to have been another word with Nostratic
> > roots.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > John
> >
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