Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian

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in the Pisidian forms as well as the form with a digamma still makes their native origin more probable. 234 Another recently discovered late Southern Anatolian language of the Luwian group, Sidetic, probably has the stem -a/esb- “horse” in proper names like Josbija < *Yu(w)- a/esb-ija. 235 Among all the compounds in *-isswa- > -isba- studied by Heubeck and his followers, ÉAr¤sbh seems particularly interesting, which was known both as the name of a town in the Homeric Troad (ÉAr¤sbhyen “from Arisbe” B 838 a.o.) and as anthroponym of two important female persons in the Trojan mythological story. As more facts point to the role of the Luwian-Lycian strata in Troy (Luwian WiluÍa) the significance of each name possibly belonging to it should not be underestimated. 234 Cf. Gindin 1967, 145. 235 Starke 1995, 119-120, n.241 (with references).
The etymology of the old name for the area of the northwestern part of Asia Minor with a Luwian-Lycian population, called in the Hittite texts AÍÍuwa 236 and in Mycenaean Greek a-si-wi-jo-, may be important for the question being discussed. Although the name of Asia was well known to Mycenaean Greeks, it would have been of Anatolian (“Asianic” in somewhat antiquated terms) origin. 237 The idea of deriving it from the Hittite adjective aÍÍu- “good” 238 does not seem particularly successful, since in Luwian the corresponding word has the form waÍÍu-, and the name would have originated in a Luwian environment. For this reason alone it is tempting to derive it from the name for horse, which was so important for the historical and military context of the whole Trojan narrative (the story of the wooden horse may be a characteristic example; another is the folk motif of a prophesying horse, etc.). It seems remarkable that in the Iliad a hero called “Asian” comes with his horses from the town of Arisbe, since in such a formula the same ancient name for horse might reappear several times in different variants. IV. Thracian. Among those Paleobalkanic Indo-European languages that are supposed to belong to the satPm group, Thracian might have retained an old term for horse, possibly seen in the proper names Ezbeniw/Hezbenus/Esbenus/Esbeneiow (having the characteristic -n- suffix; see above on the type of Latin asinus and a possible Hurrian parallel) with a (partial) voicing of the intervocalic consonants preserved as voiceless in the second part of the compounds Bet-espiow, Ouet-espiow, Out- aspiow. Since in the inscriptions of the Varna region these compounds function as epithets of the Thracian god-rider Heros, all of them can be understood as equivalent to Epipiow = ef-ippiow “riding the horse”; the first element of the compound, etymologically connected to Old Indian ud-, was deciphered on the basis of Cypriote utuxa = §p‹ tÊx˙. 239 236 Goetze 1974, 180; Gindin 1993, 130 with bibliography. 237 Watkins 1995, 151, 290. 238 Heubeck 1961, 72-73, n.76. 239 Detschev 1952, 80, n.2; Gindin 1993, 18; Poghirc 1983, 65 (5.2.2), 66; 81. On the type of compounds like Greek ÉEf¤ppow, see Milewski 1969, 117, II 7. For the suffix, cf. Old Indian a≈viya-.
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