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An Indo-European Word for ‘Woman’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Edgar H. Sturtevant
Edgar H. Sturtevant*
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Yale University
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Hans Ehelolf has published two parallel passages from a fragmentary Hittite text. The important fact to which Ehelolf called attention is that in col. 2, line 8 we have an Akkadian phrase: A-NA lú BE-EL É-TIM salBE-EL-DI Ê-TIM, which is repeated in Hittite words in line 18: pár-na-aš iš-ḫi-i pár-na- aš iš-ḫa-aš-ša-ri. Both lines mean ‘to the master of the house, to the mistress of the house’; it follows that iš-ḫa-aš-ša-ri, a dative whose nom. sg. is citable as iš-ḫa-aš-ša-ra-aš, is a derivative of iš-ḫa-a-aš e-eš-ḫa-a-aš ‘master’. I, at least, have no doubt that the latter word is cognate with Lat. erus, the IH source of the two being either ’esxos or ’esyos.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 25 , Issue 4-Part1: October-December , December 1949, pp. 343 - 345
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Copyright © 1949 by the Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 ZA NF 9.184-6 (1935) = KUB 33.62 (1945).

2 Cf. Hrozný, CH 28 and fn. 2.

3 Kulturgeschichte 69 and fn. 2 (1933).

4 Götze, Kulturg. 68 and fn. 1 (1933).

5 RHA 7.6-139 (1946-7).

6 IF 54.291 f. (1936).

7 Hethiter und Hethitisch 85 f. (1948).

8 Asia 154 f. (1946).

9 Wurzelwörterbuch 1.1321 fn. (1867).

10 BSL 35.104 pp. 104-6 (1934).