Reflexes of a Hurrian Word in Armenian: A Theonym, a Dendronym, an Anthroponym

In Old Armenian, saws means ‘proud, luxurious, great,’ ‘some (bright) color,’ and saws and sawsi mean ‘oriental plane tree’. The word has no etymology. Hurrian has the word šauša [sausa] ‘big, great’ and the theonym Šauša / Šauška for the local version of the great goddess Ištar. The article underta...

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Main Author: Armen Ye. Petrosyan
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2021-12-01
Series:Вопросы ономастики
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Online Access:http://onomastics.ru/en/content/2021-volume-18-issue-3-4