Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan:

Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan:

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Evidence from the 4 and 3 Millennium B.C.
By: Jahanshah Derakhshani
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0. The Background
The early presence of the Aryans in the Near East is the topic of the research I have
undertaken using the positive material and linguistic evidence, part of which has
already been published, while the other, the main body of the work (Main Work) will
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be published as an extensive version. In these works, and based on linguistic

evidences, such as Aryan loanwords, ethnonyms and toponyms extant in the archaic
Near Eastern texts as well as due to the absolute lack of loanwords from the so-called
pre-Iranian native languages in the Old Iranian dialects, the conventional theory of the
late migration of Aryans into the Iranian Highland has been refuted as strongly
disproved. Based on the same evidence, a pre-Sumerian presence of the Aryans in
Mesopotamia has been substantiated (see Aryans 5.4.1.10; 6.1.10). The present article
is dealing with some earliest linguistic traces of the Aryan in the archaic Near Eastern
languages such as in Sumerian, Akkadian, Elamite and Egyptian.
1. Methodology
While most languages and dialects of the ancient peoples are unknown, as they are not
attested or have died out, it is impossible to speak about an exact scientific
methodology of the investigation of ancient words and names. Alone in the case of the
Eastern Aryan, some scholars suppose that, beside Iranian and Indian, there existed a
third Indo-Iranian language not attested later, the homeland of which is assumed to be
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in the lower Oxus Valley, in ancient X ~razm (see Aryans 2.4.2). Moreover, the study,
based on which the present article is composed, proceeds from the existence of a
western group of Aryans, i.e. Western Aryans, who had partially settled west of the
Zagros, already since prehistoric times and partly as pre-Sumerian native population
of Mesopotamia. The rules of those non-attested languages and dialects cannot be
directly determined today. The etymologization of the onomasticon of this group of
peoples is quite difficult for two reasons: the lack of our knowledge of the traditions
of naming on the one hand, and of the rules of word formation and of phonetic
changes on the other.
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2. The Earliest Trace of the Aryan

The early presence of the Aryans in their ancient homeland is verified by loanwords
in other languages. In the West, a lot of loanwords have penetrated into the Finnoth
Ugric, which are dated to the 5 millennium B.C. and are derived from the IndoIranian and not from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE). The linguistic analysis of the
early phases of the Indo-Iranian has also demonstrated that the separation of the
speakers of this language from the Balts and Slavs took place during the long period
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of the originating agriculture, and therefore it should be placed in the early 5
millennium B.C. or even earlier. In the East, loanwords from the Proto-Iranian - again
not from Indo-European - are attested in Chinese and Korean, which are to be
explained by an early penetration of Proto-Iranian people to China and Korea or even
by a prehistoric settlement of the Aryans in Korea. The Indo-Aryan - Dravidian
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relations in the 4 millennium B.C. have also been investigated and considered as
possible (see Aryans 3.1). The Aryan (or the so-called Indo-European) loanwords in
Sumerian are the topic of this article and in the Main Work (NE.Aryans); their
presence upon a large scale in Akkadian and other Semitic languages has already been
[2]
studied. Moreover, most of the geographical names in Syria and Palestine are not
Semitic and can be often explained by the Aryan (see Aryans 6.2.1.2; 5.4.2.3). Many
geographical names around the Black Sea are Iranian too (see Aryans 6.2.5.5).
As the traces of the Aryan language (and again not Indo-European) was so broadly
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expanded from Eastern Asia to Eastern Europe already in the 5 millennium B.C., the
existence of an older Indo-European proto-language, from which other IE languages,
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among them the Aryan, had descended much later, namely in early to mid 3
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millennium B.C., becomes a serious problem. This severe chronological problem,

among other things, as well as the fact that no people called themselves IndoEuropean, but the fact that on the contrary the trace of the designation Aryan is
still extant in almost all languages of this family (see bellow 4.1), has urged the author
to discard the unhistorical former term in favour of the latter historical one (see
Aryans 3.1). Therefore, all the Indo-European roots listed in the present paper, which
are accompanied with an apteryx (non attested), are to be imagined with a question
mark.
3. Phonetic Change and the Chronology

The phonetic assimilations in the Aryan and Indo-European have been basically
correlated based on the attested texts of the same languages. These contain, however,
only a small fragment of the ancient Aryan lexicon. Furthermore, most phonetic
changes are assumed to have occurred only after the invention of the script. But in the
reality no phonetic change has awaited the introduction of the script and none of them
has taken place simultaneously among the Aryan or Indo-European population. We
shall see bellow that some phonetic changes, which are assumed to have been taken
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place in the Middle Iranian period, can be traced back as early as the 3 Millennium
B.C. or even earlier. Thus, contrary to the conventional method of reconstructing the
Indo-European lexemes based on the rather late attested corresponding literature
(Indian, Iranian, Greek and Latin etc.), by considering an early presence of the Aryans
in the Near East, many new correlations and reconstructions of archaic Aryan (IndoEuropean) roots could be carried out based on numerous Aryan loanwords in
Sumerian, Akkadian and Egyptian etc.
3.1. Assimilation and Euphony: The assimilation of the Aryan names and words in
the mouth of strangers, often reproduced as gibberish, as well as their distorted record
by the strangers script represent serious difficulties, thus the risk of misinterpretation
becomes great. This arises from the fact that in the antiquity no orthographic rules
existed for foreign names recorded only occasionally. Furthermore, due to polyvalent
features of many signs, the cuneiform script does not guarantee unequivocal rendering
of the original pronunciation of old words and names. Add to this the euphonic
elements intruded to the original word or name, after removal of which the original
Aryan root steps forth. Here some archaic examples:
Sum. urudu copper < *rudu ~ IE *reudh-, *rudh-r-red, IIr. *rudra-red,
Balui rd copper (see bellow 4.3.1).
Sum. Idigina, literarly interpreted as: fast flowing river = Tigris < *digna,
Akk. (I)diqlat = Arab. Dijla Tigris (after d < t; n < r) ~ OIran. tigra-fast > OP
Tigr~-Tigris (see bellow 4.6).
Sum. Aratta (the name of a country in Eastern Iran) < *Ratta ~ OIran. rthawheel, chariot (see bellow 4.7.1).
Sum. Inanna < *Nana ~ OIran. Nana Old Iranian Mother God (see bellow 4.5).
3.2. Some Early Phonetic Changes: The chronology of phonetic changes and the
determination of the original form is a basic problem of the linguistics; many
historical conclusions depend on it. Phonetic changes, assumed to be attested only in
the late historical times, can be traced back to the remote periods. Some new
considerations are presented here:
3.2.1. Centumization (s > k). The linguists generally proceed from a centum mother
language of the Indo-Europeans, from which the satm dialects have descended.
Some indications speak, however, in favour of the reciprocal phonetic changes, i.e. a
satm original form, centumized later. The extension of the centum languages from
Europe over Western Iran up to the Tokharians (see Aryans 6.2.3.5) and the east to
[4]
west spread of the Indo-European languages bear witness to various types of early
migration of languages from an eastern homeland in different directions. The fact that
the group of eastern languages, conventionally qualified as Aryan, in general does not
show signs of a centum group, only means that the Eastern Aryan languages belong to
the satem group and not necessarily means that the non-attested Western Aryan
languages and dialects did not show once signs of centum features. Those linguistic
features, generally unknown to the Eastern Aryan, could have been penetrated into the
Western Aryan under an external influence, namely through migrations of foreign
peoples, like the case of the Arabization of the New Persian (see Aryans 3.3). Quite
the same could have been happened to a part of the Western Aryan, which has
become, so to say, centumized already in early periods through overlaying of other
languages. The trace of a rare centumization in the Iranian linguistic area may be
traced still today (see bellow 3.2.1.1). The assumption of an early centumization is
corroborated by the fact that the Indo-European vocabulary in the Near-Eastern
languages very often descends from a sat?m-form, as the following examples show:
Sum. kal highly esteemed as well as powerful, strong, gal great, gal king,
prince < (after s > k; r > l) OIran. sare-supremacy, sarah-head (see bellow)
Akk. almu(m) black, dark, illu(m) shadow ~ Iran. sarm/salm, IIr.NAv.
s~ma-black (see Aryans 5.4.2.5-6), while the centum-correspondence have been
assumed the IE *kel, *k~l light and dark trips, grey and blackish colour tones > Lat.
c~lgo mist, darkness;
The designation for horse in the Near Eastern languages: *aa, auwa, sisu
horse < Aryan *aa-and not from the IE *eo > Lat. equus, equa (see Aryans
5.4.1.23).
Now, having examined these examples, the penetration of the first one into almost all
the old and new languages may be traced, by which the centumization as well as the
phonetic variations (s / h / k) can be observed:
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3.2.1.1. OIran. sare-supremacy, sar-union, communion with, or sarah-head.

The tracing of this archaic Aryan root brings us to wide language areas of the ancient
world: IIr.Av. sarah-head, OIA ras-, OI ra head, top (IE *er-, er?-top of
the body > head, horn), MP.NP sar head, top, extant in different Indo-European
languages, as in Gr. iVD head, Homer. 6D head, iVD0<" heads, mountain top,
Att. 6VD head, iXD"H horn, Att.Dor. 6VD<@<, Ion. 6VD0 head, 6VD0<@<
chief, Lat. cernuus head first, headlong, Arm. sar hight, peak. From the original
root for head develops the derivations OIA ga-, OI gam horn ~ head, Av.
sr, NP sur horn, Hier.Hitt. urna-horn, (after s > h/k) Hitt. harsan-head,
kar~ar horns, Lat. cerebrum brain, corn horn, OHG hirni brain ~ head.
Further derivation from the same root are Av. s~rav~ra, MP s~rv~r headgear,
[6]
helmet as well as Av. *s~r-d~ra-, MP.NP s~l~r leader. A rare centumization of

the root sarah-in the Iranian linguistic area or a direct adoption from the IndoEuropean form, as well as the change of r > l, has resulted to NP kalla head, kal~
[7]
above (in this form component of some place names in Iran ) ~ kala face, kal~n
great, kal~ntar chieftain, head of a tribe, powerfully built, NP kal~te castle or
[8]
village on the rise (in this form component of many place names in Iran ) < *kal~[9]
deh < *sar(~)-deh high village (cf. Sar-deh, name of some villages in Iran ),
furthermore MP kul~f, NP kul~h, Gilaki kula, Tabari kal~ hat, headgear (cf. IE
[10]
*er(e)n helmet), Gr. i`DLH, iDV<@H helmet, OHG hulja, hulla headgear. A
secondary derivation from IIr.Av. sarah-head = OIA ras-has been extended into
IIr.NAv. sra-hero, OIA.OI ra-, OP *2ra, MP sr strong (as a result of the
semantic change: head ~ brain ~ horn ~ helmet ~ hero), a branch of which is OIA.OI
vra-strong, robust, superior and corresponds to Gr. ibD4@H lord, ruler,
[11]
owner, fem. iLD\" lady, regina,
and further to Engl. sir, OHG hr dignified,
[12]
magnificent and HG Herr sir.
Hier.Luw. arri above as well as surna-or
[13]
awatar-horn should be derived also from the Old Iranian sarah-head, sarerule or sr-horn and attest the satm-character of the Luwian. Thus, among the
Aryan Pereset (Old Philistines, for the connection with the Persians see Aryans
6.2.1.2), whose language was akin to Luwian, seren chieftain became a common
[14]
word.
In addition, following derivations seems to have been taken place in the NonAryan
cultures: Sum. r, e-er king, prince, Akk. ar~u(m) marvelous, magnificent,
[15]
arru(m) king, prince, arratu(m) regina, princess, Heb. ar director,
Sum.
[16]
r great
, Sum. ir-a-l a sort of headband (cf. Gr. iDZ*g:<@<, Dor.

[17]
iD*g:<@< headband), ir-a-l who goes in front (on the head),
Sum. sur7
rise, high ground and finally (after s > h) Eg. r face (compare above NP kala
[18]
face), rj top, head, master, chief ; and furthermore, as a result of centumization:

Sum. a-gal high water, -gal great power, strong as well as leader of the
[19]
assembly, -l force, power, victory
, Sum. -kal force, power, .kal
[20]
prince,
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Sum. kal highly esteemed as well as powerful, strong,
gal great,
gal king, prince and all the combined terms as gal the great, king, lugal prince,
[22]
king,
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Sum. lugal ki-r-ra (in connection with Erim) king of the world
(cf.
[24]
Sum. ki-ar-ra horizon, world
, and also Iran. *kaysar, *kauuisara great king >
[25]
OP.El. Ka-i-a-ra, Gr. i"F"D, Lat. caesar, Got. kaisar emperor), Old El. gal
great, kir mister, man, one (bar-sir ki-ir a Persian mister, a Persian), sukkal
[26]
regent, sukkal-ma overlord, grand regent,
(the second component ma grand

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corresponds to Aryan mah sublime see bellow 4.5 and Aryans 5.3.2), Middle El. su[27]
gr King, su-gr.ri-a-ra male deity

tg
me
, furthermore, Akk. karballatu
[28]
( kar.bal ) cap (cf. pargu(m) cap, actually in connection with the

prehistoric Persian people, see Aryans 6.2.1.2). In this language area a secondary
derivation from the same root (IIr.NAv. sra-hero) has developed to Sum. ul
[29]
hero . Connected with the original root (IIr.Av. sarah-and after s > k > g > y and r
> l) may also stand NP yal hero. For the centumization of the root in Sumerian, i.e
the development of s > k/g, one could take the example eme-sal alongside eme-gal
Sumerian dialect, where eme stands for language and sal/gal for high. Thus,
these terms originally meant sublime language (compare eme-gi (r) Sumerian
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[sublime language] and gi (r) high).

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Further trace of ANE sar, ar are extant in personal names: Abisar, the name of an
[31]
Amorite king of the Larsa dynasty, < *Apisar or *Apiyasar;
the Kwr of the

[32]
execration texts (see Aryans 5.4.1.17, e5) ~ Iran. *Kauui-sar = Av. Kauui[33]
Kavay) prince, king
(Kavi,
[34]
(attested also as a personal name)
, cf. Kis~ri, the name of

[35]
a king in the documents of the third dynasty of Ur (see Aryans 6.1.6). Moreover,
the personal name aramuli could contain the Aryan elements sar(e)-and }mur/l the
head of the Amurri or Sar of the }mur/l (cf. the Hurr. Amuli < Amurri, see Aryans
[36]
5.4.1.5). Yet more derivations of sar-are possible.
Also Irdaara and Irtaara =

[37]
*Rasara having communion with Ra, cf. the Av. aa.sar, belong to this
group, which are connected with the Median name Artasari in the Assyrian
[38]
inscription of Salmanassar III (858-824 B.C.).

3.2.2. The Phonetic change s > h. There is in fact no general consensus on the time
of the phonetic change s > h in the Iranian languages, but we know that the change of
sapt seven to hapta had already been accomplished at the latest in the G~th~s of
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the Avesta (18 century B.C.)
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nd
, as well as in the Near Eastern Aryan in the mid 2

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millennium B.C. (Av. hapta seven ~ Akk. aptara of the Nuzi Texts from the 2
[40]
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Millennium B.C. in connection with horse breeding). Even as early as in the 23

century B.C., the Amurru King, uwaruwa (~ Av. hvar-sun + IIr.OAv.NAv.
uah-(u~) light, dawn or IE *su-, OIA vsu-, Av. vohu-good), maintained in
his name the h-form (see Aryans 5.4.1.9; for the Amurru people see bellow 4.7.2). So
it is quite probable that this development had taken place very early in some Iranian
dialects. The spread of h-sound in the regions between Iran and Greece, preserved
also in Lycian, Phrygian and Armenian, the expansion of s-sound in the regions
between India over Mitanni, Luwiya (cf. Hier.Luw. arri above as well as surna-or
awatar-horn, see above 3.2.1.1) up to Palestine, raises the question whether both
forms have resulted from an earlier one. This could be an interdental spirant *z (the
Engl. th in thank) or rather its voiced equivalent *x (the Engl. th in this) which
h
developed in different languages on the one hand into t , t, d, on the other hand into z,
, , f and finally into j and h. As an example of this phonation one could mention
e.g. the Archaic Aryan *ze -or *xe\ god (IE *de\-) which have developed into
h
the Old Iranian *daa-, OIA dv<- god, Av. dava-demon, Gr. t es, Zes,
Lac.)gbH, Myc. teo, Hitt. *iu, Luw. Tiwat-god of the sun, Old Latin deivos,
[41]
Dieuspater father heaven = Jupiter, Lat. deus god, festus festive etc. For the
phonetic change z > h, s, t cf. the IIr.OAv. puzra son, OIA putr, OP pua, Parth.
puhr, Pahl. pus, NP pusar son.
3.2.3. The Phonetic change r > n: cf. IE *suvar-s, *suvan-s, IIr. *suHar-/*suHanv
v
sun (OIA svr) > av. xvn, xvan sun, x anvat sunny, x g of the sun, Germ.
[42]
rd
*sunn, Got. sunno, Engl. sun. This phonetic change can be traced back to the 3
Millennium B.C. as OIran. Tigra > Sum. (I)digna Tigris (see bellow 4.6), OIran.
Amard > Martu > Eg. Mantu; OIran. *Amur > Eg. Amun (see bellow 4.7.2), OIran.
Baxtri (Baktri) > Eg. Bachtan.
Connected with this is the phonetic change rt/rd > nt/nd: cf. MIran. murt~r, NP
murd~r ~ Arm. mund~r carcass, corpse.
[43]
3.2.4. The Phonetic change v > p
through OAv. hva-, huuar sun, light, sky (~

[44]
OI sv-, OIA svr-sun, bright sky) (~(?) NP hav~, Arab. haw~ air, sky)
first
[45]
developed into Hitt.Hurr. *va (~(?) Hurr. avur+ni sky ) and then into Hurr.Hitt.
*pa and finally into epa goddes of sun (see Aryans 5.4.3). With the proto-root could
be also connected the IE *h2eh1-~ proto-Iranian
*(H)vaHata wind (Av. v~ta-, Ved. v:ta-), then the IE *h2ueh1-ent, Hitt. huant-, the
[46]
Tokh. (A) want wind as well as the IIr. *HaH blow (cf. above the NP hav~
air) and (after h ~ s and v > p) the MParth. )spyr, MP spihr, spahr, NP sipihr
[47]
(sepehr) sky
. The Aryan proto-root svr- / hva-sun appears doubly in the

[48]
Hurrian name uwar-epa = svr-+ epa and suggests that the person bearing the
name was aware of his Aryan origin. Further trace of the same phonetic change can be
seen in OIran. *Ka-> *Kua-, *Kva-(= Akk. Kau (Kassite) > *Kspa-=
[49]
Gr. Kaspioi and MIran. Ksp.

3.2.5. The Phonetic change v > g. The early change v > g in the Aryan can be proved
h
by Sum. gukin gold (after the change w > g) < PIE *(a)wes(k )-gold ~ IE (a)esred sky, *auso-gold (cf. *aus-tero-eastern) > Finn. loanword vas-ki copper,
[50]
Tokh. A ws gold, Arm. (v)os-ki gold < vask- as well as by Av. *verena-rice,
OI vrh-and NP birin rice [~ NP gurin and Waxi gurun rice] > Akk. kurangu
[51]
th
th
rice ). So, the names of the kings of Kummu and Commagene from the 9 and 8
century B.C., Kutapi < Gut~sp < Vit~spa and Kundapi < Vind~spa may be well
explaind as Iranian and manifest the survival of the Aryan tradition in the Near East.
The OP Margu = Av. Muro Marv, Margiana speaks also in favour of an early
phonetic change v > g.
4. The trace of the Aryans in the Ancient Texts

4.1. In Old Indo-Aryan the term ari-originally meant stranger, whence it is possible
to understand the meaning guest and - on the later periods - also enemy (cf. NP.
~r( enemy). One cannot uncouple ar- from the Ved. ary-protector of strangers
> master, r(i)ya- (arya-) householder, master and :rya-, the designation of the
[52]
Aryans. These groups of peoples appear among different peoples of the Ancient
world probably with their self-denomination *VrV-(/*ari(a)-/, /*eri(a)-/, /*iri(a)-/,
[53]
/*ori(a)-/, /*uri(a)-/ etc., cf. the IE *ario-? master, lord

[54]
ari nomad, Eg. ry companion
), like e.g. the Sum. >ri,

[55]
, cf. the Eg. ry p)t prince
, probably Aryan
[56]
prince
<(?) *ari-p<ti (for the OIA p<ti- ~ Sum. patesi, see Aryans 6.2.2.4), Eg.
[57]
arri, inhabitant of Palestine
, Finn. orja slave (prob. borrowed from the Indo-
Iranian (see Aryans 5.4.1.7), Hit. ara companion
[58] ld
, a-ri-e 'Aryan people (see
[59]
Aryans 6.4), Alanen (= Aryans, after r> l) , but probably it is also the Aryans that
we encounter under the ethnonym with the meaning stranger, like the Heb. Goim
[60]
stranger (Genesis 14)
When Lugalbanda from Uruk moves eastwards to the land Aratta (see bellow 4.7.1)
[61]
and enjoys the plant of life, i.e. immortality, which was called ilianum / er~nu,
and has been penetrated into Akkadian as iri~num, eriannu, erandm, eri'~num,
gi
gi
gi
[62]
eriandm, iriandm, ilianum and elanu a tree or a bush, and probably

through an Aryan form *VrV-(*era-, *eri-, *iri-) + the Amurr.Hurr. suffix -(~)nu(m)
together with Sum. erin indicates its homeland, which later was called the Parth.
ary~n, MP r Iranians, Pahl. r~n (< r~n-ahr < r~n-ahr realm of the Aryans
< Gen.Pl. ary~n~m ~ Av. airyana-Aryan) = Iran (see Aryans 5.1.2). Gilgame, the
son of Lugalbanda, again persistently moves eastwards to obtain immortality. There,
[63]
umbaba rules over the land of Erin
rich in forests, a name, which occurs also as
[64]
geographical and probably reflects the older form of r~n/Iran (cf. Erin and Eirinn
for Ireland, see also Aryans 4.1.1; 5.12; 6.1.1). The Sumerian term erin (also erim)
later became also the name of many elements from the Iranian Highland: enemy,
[65]
hostile land, eastern soldiers , treasury, etc. Quite similar is the OIA.OI dsyuand d~s-, originally the name of a foreign people (OP Daha-, ethnonym: Dahian),
but later it became the term for the foreign country, foreign people ~ Av.OP
[66]
dahyu-land, as well as Khot. daha-man, NB d~h servant,

development (see Aryans 4.1.1).
a parallel
4.2. Aryan ar-, an archaic linguistic element: arR- , ary-, :rya-Aryan < *VrV(see Aryans 4.1.1; 6.3.1) > ANE ari, ariya, era er~, iri(~), eri(a/n/m): as an
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appellative this root occurs already in the 3 millennium B.C. in the form of erin (see
Aryans 5.1.3), as well as ilianum / er~nu immortality plant > Akk. iri~num,
eriannu etc. (see Aryans 5.1.2). The Akkadian word lir(i)~nu too could be of the
[67]
same origin. If this word could be interpreted as inaccessible area of the heaven,
it obviously refers to the mountainous landscape of the Iranian Highland. Yet the
[68]
alternative interpretation as high water too brings us to the same result,

particulraly since this word appears in a text in connection with Subartu, arri
Aryan? (see Aryans 4.1.1) and other terms (la-iranu, marat, amaridu, amu, ru,
[69]
erinu etc.), which probably are connected with the Aryans. The early appearances
of the Sum. a-ri enemy, hostile, nomad ~ hostile Aryan?, Aria (a town in
Mesopotamia, see Aryans 5.4.1.7) as well as A-ri-a the king of Gu-du-a witness
[70]
meanwhile against a Hurrian root (ar give), as occasionally supposed,
since their
[71]
attestation precedes the beginning of the Hurrian cultural presence in Mesopotamia.

The earliest designation of Northern Mesopotamia in the inscriptions as eri (< Ari(?),
ki
later Akkad. = ma-da uri [see Aryans 6.2.2.1]), of the Amurru as =ri (see Aryans
5.4.1.7), of Jerusalem as Uru- / *Eri-Salem (see Aryans 5.4.2.5) could be connected
with the early settlement of the Western Aryans in Western Iran across Northern
Mesopotamia up to Syria and Palestine, consequently in a region which is but a little
smaller than the territory inhabited by the Kurds. From the Cassite period (ca. 17501173 B.C.) also Ari-/Aria- inherent names are well attested (see Aryans 6.1.1,
footnote 593), being partly combined with other well-known Aryan elements: Ari[72]
parni~ *parnu-old, *Parnu (= Parth. prnw) old man, or representing Ariv

parna ~ X ar?nah- of the Aryans Aryan glory (see Aryans 6.3.11) as well as Ari[73]
kirma and Ari-kas
(Aryan Cassite?). Ari-wana, king of Abina ~ Av. van-win,
[74]
defeat
[75]
or van-, van-to love
and Ari-zana = *Aryazana-of Aryan origin (>
[76]
Akk. a-ri-za-nu)
[77]
~ Av. zana-people, human race
. Ariya appearing in the
[78]
Egyptian documents
might be connected with the same root. The Assyrian

[79]
documents (ca. 2200-606 B.C.) too contain this element, where some later names
unambiguously point to the Aryans and Iran; *A-ri-a a Median prince, Arija, the
prince of Barua (ca. 715 B.C., who paid tribute to Sargon II; for Barua = Parua
~ Parai ~ P~rsa- see Aryans 6.2.1), *Ar-a-ra-am-na-= OP Ariy~ramna-, *A-ri-pa[80]
ar-na = Iranian name, cf. UD4(@)nVD<0H On the Iranian side attested aryainherent names abound, like Av. Aira-aa-promoting the Aryans, OP Ariy~ramnacalming the Aryans, one who brings the peace for the Aryans and many Old Iranian
names attested by indirect traditions (cf. Aryans, 6.1.1, footnote 602), in which the
[81]
Iran. arya- is rendered as the El. Har-ri or as the Akk. ar-ri/ ar-ra. Owing to the
uninterrupted use of the names with Ari / Aria in the Near East and their correlation
[82]
with those in Iran up to the Iranian Scythians, all the attested examples, even the
oldest ones, might preferably be considered as derivations from the IIr. *arya-= OP
ariya-Aryan with the corresponding renderings, unless in exceptional cases, when
other convincing interpretations urge. But it turns out that no other convincing
meaning, of whatever nature, could make sense in all the Near Eastern names with the
Ari-element. The same can be stated concerning the Greek enhancing prefixes ari[83]
and eri-. Thus, Vk4-and Xk4-are well attested in the poems of Homer. There is no
unanimity concerning the meaning of these elements (good, very, excellent,
[84]
strong, very high, stranger). Assuming the meaning stranger
does not render
[85]
in many cases the original meaning.
In some cases just the meaning strong or
[86]
high could be assumed for Xk4-. In any case, it has been supposed that Vk4-and
Xk4-are of fossilized nature, the concrete and descriptive meaning of which has been
[87]
forgotten.
The Greek D4FJ@H the best, the first, the most distinguished as well
[88]
as numerous personal names as Uk\FJT<, Uk4FJ\T<, and others (e.g.

UD4FJ@JX80H Aristotle, but also k4FJ@ik"J\" aristocracy) might be connected
with the above mentioned words. While *k4-stranger as a simplex does not exist in
[89]
Greek, and moreover, a consequent rendering of Vk4-by stranger is impossible,

and on the other hand, it no more existed as an independent word already in the Old
[90]
Epic period, one might think here of the probable original meaning Aryan for it.
This assumption leads to the conclusion that the immigrating Greeks were quite aware
of their Aryan origin, as it has later become preserved in their language as a fossil,
without being conscious of its original meaning. This conclision coincides with other
facts, which speak in favour of the same origin of the Iranians and the Greeks (see
Aryans 6.2.2; 6.2.1.2; 6.2.1.3; 6.2.5.7; 6.2.5.8). The probable connection of the Greek
[91]
88@H other with the OI ary- stranger (later Aryan) too could be explained
by the fact that this word originally labelled the immigrating Greeks (Aryans) versus
the native population. Thus, the Gr. W88VH Hellas, Greece might be derived (after
r > l) from the original Archaic Aryan root *:ryas Aryan > (after s > h) OI :rya
Aryan; the Dor. -<gH. Hellens could also be explained through the same root,
[92]
namely after the change r > n (see above 3.2.3). Also interesting is the probable
connection of the Armenian ari brave with the proto-root arR-, *ario-lord (see
above 4.1 and Aryans 4.1.1). Thus it seems that two groups of words have originated
from the old root:
1) The first group has developed in the Indo-European languages into appellatives and
adjectives which had the lexical meaning of supremacy, as e.g. lord, strong, the
best, the most distinguished, brave etc. It is imaginable to see traces of the archaic
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Aryan *:ryas Aryan in its secondary meaning highly confirmed = strong, worth to
confirm in the contemporary Indo-European languages, namely the NP ~ri yes
might represent the first split of this proto-root and Engl. yes or Germ. ja yes the
second one.
2) The second group originated in the non-Indo-European languages, used mostly by
the peoples who regarded the Aryans as captives, slaves, soldiers, enemies or
strangers, as erin soldier, erim enemy, orja slave, >ri, ari nomad, arri
Palestinian (later also Pereset Philistines ~ Persians, see Aryans 6.2.1.2) etc.
Besides the numerous appellatives and adjectives constructed with an arR- element
which mean master, strong, brave, sublime, the most distinguished in the
Aryan and Indo-European languages respectively, one could also mention El.Akk. ari
[93]
roof (Elamite Lohnword?) , the Hier.Luw. ari-raise, *ariyatti(i)-elevation,

ursag
Ariyatti Ariyatti-mountains = the Iranian Highland?,
mountains,
uru
Ariyataa town Ariyataa as well as the Hitt. ariya-, Lyc. erije-raise and
[94]
Arm. ari stand up!, (~ IE *er-raise, elevation). It is therefore possible that in the
Old Aryan ar-bears the meaning high or highlander. Thus Gr. D4n@H billy
[95]
goat and Lat. aries ram might have meant originally animal of the rise (ar) ,
like NP qu ram with originall meaning animal of the mountain (Av. kaofa) (see
bellow 4.7.6 and Aryans 6.2.3.7).
4.3. Early Aryan trace based on some Iranian products
4.3.1. Copper. For the Iranian origin of the Near Eastern copper, the adoption of its
original Aryan designation in Sumerian is significant. In Old Iranian red is *rudrah
which is connected to the IE *reudh-, *rudh-r-, *h1rud -r- red, Av. raoi*ita-red,
reddish, OIA *rudhr, *rudhir- red, blood-red, Myc. e-ru-to-ro, Gr. XDLhD`H
red and also with the OIA loh-, OI lh- reddish metal, copper, OIsl. raupi red
[96]
iron-ore, OChSl. ruda ore, metal, Balu?i rd copper etc.
The Sumerians might
[97]
have borrowed urudu copper from this root. This fact confirms the prehistoric
commercial relations of the Aryan copper dealers with the Sumerians who were
dependent on the import of this metal from the Iranian Highland. Then the earliest
mention of urudu goes back to the most archaic texts from Uruk, namely the Eanna
[98]
IVa layer (ca. 3200-3000 B.C.).
It is noteworthy that in Southern Mesopotamia

[99]
urudu was defined by luh-ha refined in order to announce its pure quality.
Probably the Sumerians had also borrowed this term from the Aryan loh- adj.
reddish, which together with *rudra-originally designated red = pure copper.
4.3.2. Iron. The words introduced by the Persians, the later Philistines (see bellow
11
4.7.4), points to the designation of these people, as e.g. the Heb. barzel iron, Aram.
[100]
b/pa/urz l~, Old South Arabic przn, Arab. firzil, Akk. parzillu iron
(cf. the OI
[101]
p:raava-made of iron = the OP parzave-introduced by the Parthians) ,

furthermore the Lat. ferrum iron < *fersm (loanword from a Near Eastern
[102]
Language, after the intervocalic s > z > r),
as well as the Sum. an-bar-s(-ga) ~
[103]
an-bar-s-m iron
are all connected with the designation of this proto-Persian
people and with the root prs, pers, *Paras(u/a) axe-fighter, Persian ~ OIA parabattle-axe (see Aryans 6.2.1.4).
4.4. Mythological Personage
The name Anzu, a mythological bird in the Lugalbanda Epos, is of Aryan origin: The
plant haoma-, and correspondingly soma-, was called in Old Indo-Aryan am-, Av.
[104]
su, a plant that belongs to haoma-.
Amsu at the same time means also cup for the
[105]
soma-drink.
[106]
In the Rigveda soma figures also as a bird
to which, as to Am-
[107]
or AnHu- participation in a battle was ascribed.
Au is also the name of a
[108]
protg of the Avins.

Also the epos Gilgame and the Land of Living reflects
many details of the Iranian version of the legend about Dah~k and Yima. Like
umbaba, Yima too has seven breezes at his disposal. Like umbaba (~ El. Humban
<(?) Iran. *Hauma-p~na-protector of haoma plant) who was decapitated by
Gilagame and his companion Enkidu, Yima was torn into two pieces by the
companion of Dah~k.
4.5. Aryan God in the Near East
Many God of the Near East may be formally and etymologically explaind with the
Iranian correspondings:
Sum. Martu (Mardu), Akk. Amurru (see under name of people and lands, bellow
4.7.2).
Sum. Inanna may be the rendering of the Iranian goddess Nanaia (Nana(i)(a)),
after an initial euphonic vocal i was implemented (cf. euphonic vocals by (A)ratta,
(I)dig(i)na, see above 3.1 and Aryans 5.3.1).
Akk. Itar < IE *h2str-, Hitt. ittar / sitar / star Venus, IIr.OAv. star-star.
Elamite Nahiti Sun God < Archaic Aryan *~hita) > Av. An~hit~.
Sum. Ma the Moon God may represent the Iranian god M~h the moon (see
Aryans 5.3.2).
Sum. Irda, Erda, Ereda, Erre, Ereda may correspond to the elamite rendering
Irda of the OIA Av. ta-= OP arta-correct order.
[109]
Apsf, surface waters, which originates from an underground fresh water ocean
~
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[110]
OI aps water .
Assur.Bab. Assur (Aur) is corresponding to the Aryans sura-a god, master, as
well as a designation of a group of gods = Iranian Ahura-Mazd~h originated from it.
For further Aryan deities in Mesopotamia see Aryans 5.3.5.
4.6. Geographical names of Mesopotamia
[111]
ki
Marda (Marad)
ki [113]
Amarda ,
[112]
is a non-Semitic
name and its ideographic form,
amazingly coincides with the Iranian ethnonym Amard.

[114]
a town in the land Subartu may be from the same origin.

Mardaman
ki
Aria , a town, may point to the Aryans.
Laga royal town? (~ IE *re-s king, OIA r:j-king, ruler, OI r:j~-king, Lat.
rg-king, regna queen, cf. the Old Iranian town and region Ra(~-[also Ragay-,
Ra(ay, Raay-, today Rey, south of Tehran]),
The Hurr. Puranti = Sabarian Uruttu Euphrates, Akk. *Purantu ~ Purattu,
[115]
Uruttu Euphrates
[116]
id
(~ Sum. buranun) < Iran. ufr~tu-Euphrates
< Old Iran.
[117]
hu-pere2wa-good to cross = Euphrates;

[118]
The Hurr. Arai or Aranzi Tigris
= Subarian Aranz < Iran. Arang a

[119]
river flowing to the west = Digla Tigris;

Connected with the Tigris, the Akk. (I)diqlat and Sum. Idigina, linguistically
[120]
interpretated as [fast] flowing river,

after the intrusion of an euphonic element i
(cf. Nana > (I)nanna, see above 3.1) and the change r > l/n (cf. *}mur > }mul, Amun,
see above 3.2.3), can be easily interpreted from an Old Iranian root ~ OP Tigr~Tigris, El. ti-ig-ra ~ Av. ti(ra-pointed, acute, sharp, ti(ri-arrow (cf. OP tigra[121]
xauda-with a sharp hat
[122]
), whereby the MP Arvand Tigris
< Av. aurvant-
[123]
quick
maintains the same attribut of the river.

[124]
Eg. Rnw (Rathanu)

< rtha-+ the Hurr. suffix -nu or the Old Iran. nava new
= new rtha-/Aratta (see above 4.7.1 and Aryans 5.1.7ff.) or the IIr. Av. nauua
nine = nine wheels. (cf. Ennea-Hodoi nine ways in HERODOTUS VII, 114);
The Eg. *-hy (Zahi) dark land = Syria
[125]
< Av. arezah-the name of a
[126]
country (karvar) situated in the west,
the origin of which is arezah-evening =
[127]
west;
[128]
the later designations of Syria are also of Aryan origin;
4.7. Names of peoples and countries

[129]
4.7.1. Aratta. In the country Aratta, situated in Eastern Iran

and possessing
legendary wealth, gold, silver, carneol and lapis lazuli, one could come upon a series
of other Iranian elements. The designation of the land itself is Aryan: in the cuneiform
texts the OIA rtha-wheel, war-chariot is rendered as *arata-, like in the Akk.
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eratti(ja)nnu part of a weapon?, probably the wheel of the chariot and the Hittite
aratianni chariot equipment, a part of a chariot, as well as aratiyanni in the texts
from Alalakh, which all descend from the Aryan rtha-(see Aryans 5.4.1.24). Besides,
it is necessary to take into consideration that initial r is usually preceded by an
[130]
euphonic element a in the cuneiform script

(cf. the euphonic vocal i by
(I)nanna, (I)dig(i)na, see above 3.1). Hence after removing this a, we obtain the
original ratta < rtha-. Thus there might be no objections against the cuneiform
rendering of rtha-by aratta. The Aryan analogy of Aratta could be seen in.
v
X aniratha, the designation of the part of the earth (kavar-) in the middle of the
[131]
earth, which enclosed the homeland of the Aryans.

The possible roots for
v
v
X aniratha can be restored by connecting rtha-wheel with x arenah-(= Med.
farnah-< IE *sel sun), thus wheel of kingly brilliance, as well as with the Av.
hvar-, hence wheel of the sun. Rtha-and the symbolic description of all parts of the
v
world, in the middle of which X aniratha is situated, as the homeland of the
[132]
[133]
found its continuation in the Avesta and in the Indian sources.

In the
Aryans,
list of the countries in the Avesta among the 16 Ahurian countries also ?Chxra is
mentioned. Later it became the NP charx wheel. NP Charx was also the name of a
[134]
town Khor~s~n, north of Neish~bur,
[135]
also arq not far from Bukh~r~
, and
[136]
another place near Ghaznn.

All those names should be understood as the
survivals of the term rtha-(Aratta) in Eastern Iran; in spite of the linguistic
transformation they have been preserved semantically until the Islamic times.
According to HERODOTUS and HELLANICUS the Persians were called also Artaioi
[137]
(Artaians).
Later, the inhabitants of the country Barygaza were mentioned by the

[138]
Greeks as Arattii, Arachosi and Gandari, subdued by the bellicose Bactrians.

4.7.2. Martu (Mardu) and Amurru. Martu, the god of the living in the steppe and the
master of the mountains, is the personification of the tribe Martu. The tribe name
Martu, which later entered into Akkadian as Amurru (Old Testament Amorit) and
afterwards in other Semitic languages, offers an obvious clue. Neither the designation
Martu nor Amurru, nor the change from one form to the other could be explained
through any Semitic language. On the contrary, both forms have the same root in
Aryan, and the phonetic change is well attested: From the linguistic point of view the
Iranian term }mu, correspondingly }mul (and also *}mur) presumes the Old Persian
*}mda-(Gr. U:"D*@4), which is probably connected with the OIA amta-immortal,
immortality or rather life, vitality (Av. am?a-) and is attested in the Rigveda as an
[139]
immortal god.
In other sources we know off Iranian tribes Amard, Mard and
Amurgi. Eg. Mnw (Mantu) name of a tribe and a god, Mntw name of a place and
also Eg. mr.t slavederive from the same root (see Aryans 5.4.1.11). the introduction
of the Egyptian term mr.t slave (see Aryans 5.4.1.8). So the phonetic change Martu
> Mantu (according to rt/rd > nt/nd) or r > n (see above 3.2.3) is quite feasable
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[140]
linguistically. Mntw figured also as a geographical name (Sinai).
It is significant
[141]
that Mnw was revered in Egypt as a god,

as Martu was revered in Mesopotamia
(see Aryans 5.4.1.1). As a parallel to Mesopotamia, later in Egypt too the change of
the ethnonym Martu into Amurru (according to Iran. *}mda-> *}mur) took place.
There was on one side the change of ethnonym Mantu to Amu, and on the other, the
development from the theonym Mantu (~ sum. Martu < Iran. *}mda-) the name of
the god Amun (~ Akk. Amurru < Iran. *}mur); also the designation of the
Ammonites in Palestine is connected with the same. Based on the same phonetic
change from the Iran. ~tar, ~t?r? fire the Egyptian Sun God Aton could have been
developed. Amenophis IV. (1364-1347 B.C. = Ekhnaton, Eg. +-n-Jtn pleasing
[142]
Aton ), whose mother in law (Gilu-epa, daughter of the Mittanian King uttarna,
see Aryans 6.3.19) as well as his own secondary wife (Kiya, see Aryans 6.1.6) bear
Aryan names, was the first preacher of a monotheistic religion in Egypt and worshiper
of the God Aton.
th
The people Amu, attested in the Egyptian texts since the 6 dynasty (2330-2180
[143]
B.C.),
were according to the Egyptian documents from the land +ty (Djati),
[144]
named as the homeland of the Amu.

The location of Djati is not even defined in
the approach. As the supposed homeland of the Amu was in the surroundings of the
Caspian Sea up to }mudary~ and Badakhsh~n, Djati may be identified with the
[145]
Avestan D~ity~,
[146]
which is a river in Airyana Vajah.
4.7.3. Subartu or Subar could belong to the great vedic kingdom Bharata <(?) Sbhart-, sbhta-, s-bhar-well cultivated, s-bhti-~ Av. hu-frabereiti-good
[147]
a Bharat-
performance, correspondingly Subur < s-bhur = very mobile,

[148]
people being attested in the Vedic literature.
For supposing an Aryan root of the

[149]
toponym it is important that Subur is attested also as ubur,
which witnesses a
[150]
phonetic change absolutely unknown in Sumerian,

while the transformation s > h
and su-> hu-good is regular in Iranian. The inhabitants of Subartu, at least some
part of them, are attested as Su- people good people (see in detail NE.Aryans).
4.7.4. Parai = Barahi (Barai) = ideographic Marai, a land east of Elam and
Anan, somewhere in the region of Kerm~n. The earliest occurrence of this
ideographic name is from a document of Lugal->nne-mundu (ca. 2500 B.C.), a ruler
[151]
of Adab.
From the time of Sargon (2371-2316 B.C.) more documents are extant,
which tell about a land Baraum, Barai, Parai, Parau(m) or Marai, often
[152]
[153]
together with Elam.

All these names refer to the same country
and in each case
they reflect the actual spelling at the moment of writing, while Marai represents the
[154]
ideographic form.
In any case the older and therefore the original form was
Parai. The Aryan analogy of Parai might be regarded in OIA para-hatchet,
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[155]
axe, fighting axe ; also the name of the Persians, the OP P~rsa-may be regarded
as an Iranian correspondence of *P~r[a]va-people with fighting axes = Med.
P~rsa- < *P~rv-a-(the original form is Pru), IIr. *p~r?a-. For the ethnic affinity
of the Parai people with the Perisits (Philistines) see Aryans 6.2.1.7.
4.7.5. Mada = M~da. Already very early Mada appears as a geographical term in the
Mesopotamian texts. The Sumerian ma-da is doubtlessly a loanword, which is
generally translated as land. Yet the nature of its occurrence in the ancient texts
[156]
witnesses that a specific meaning must be connected with it.
So Gudea of Laga
[157]
(2143-2124 B.C.) mentions Mada as a region were legumes(?) grew.

Yet this
region might include a larger territory, since mada-appears as prefix to many
toponyms and country names in the Iranian Highland, such as Martu, Subartu,
Anan, Kima, Gutium etc. Thus, Mada may render M~da of the Old Iranian
sources. The etymology of Mada could be connected with middle and center, as
the IIr.OAv. maidiia-and NAv. mai*iia-middle, center, Old Indo-Aryan mdhyamiddle, situated in the middle suggest, indicatiog the countries with the madadeterminative as the center of the world.
4.7.6. Gutium (Qutium), situated in Western Iran, is mentioned already in the
presargonic period in a document (ca. 2500 B.C.) The fact that the Guti belonged to
the proto-Iranians, is confirmed by their language, which is attested mainly by
personal names. According to them the Guti spoke an Indo-European language, which
[158]
was close to the Tokharian.

The relation between the Tokharian and the Aryan is
corroborated by linguistic remnants in Tokharian and the grammatical parallels
between both languages, while it is also related with Hittite, Greek, Latin and
Armenian as well as Baltic and Slavic (see Aryans footnote 854-856). In later periods
we come across the Tokharian speaking people, that is the Tokharians, probably
calling themselves Tugri, near the border of China, and among the Yhe-chih, which,
according to the normal phonetic change in Chinese (after gu ~ yh, ti ~ ?i), represent
[159]
rd
the Guti.
So the Guti and the Tukri (see bellow 4.7.7) of the 3 millennium B.C.,
or at least a part of them, should have migrated already early from Western Iran
towards the east and settled at the borders of China. A connection between the tribe
[160]
name Ku? (K?) and kfi? mountainous people has been already considered.
It is
indeed possible to imagine that the Ku?i and Guti derive from the Aryan word-stem
for mountain: from the Indo-European roots *keu-, *skeu-prolonged and *keubend has developed the IE *keu-k-and *keup-vault upwards, hill, from which then
the OI ku?ati-curves, kuca-womans breast, Av. kaofa-, OP kaufa-, MP kwf, Pahl.
kf, NP kh mountain, khunchbacked, Russ. k?a pile, OHG hof yard,
[161]
good (originally from the location on the high ground, hill) , furthermore the OI
otha-swelling, rise are developed, while the MIA pha-swelling could be a
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contamination of otha-and Aryan *kaupha-, cf. OIA *kopha-hill, mountain (= Av.

[162]
So Guti and Quti as well as Ku?i etc. could have belonged to the same
kaofa ).
root and originally meant mountainous people, which points to their homeland in
the mountainous area of the Zagros (cf. the tribe Ku? of the traditional history of
[163]
Iran ). Thus, NP qu ram means originally animal of the mountain, like Gr.
D4n@H billy goat and Lat. aries ram, which might have meant originally animal
of the rise (ar-) (see above 4.2).
4.7.7. Tukri(), is the land of the Tr~nians, who are specified in the Middle Iranian
documents as Tw(rn, in an inscription of Sh~pur I as Tu(r~n, the MP Twrstn =
[164]
Trast~n, Av. tra-Turian, the Turians, Turanians, Arm. Turan and Arab. r~n.
We know that the people called by the Indians as Tukh~ra and by the Greeks as
I`P"D@4, were Iranian and lived 2000 km west of the place, where the Tokharian
[165]
documents are found.

In later periods we come across the Tokharian speaking
people, that is the Tokharians, probably calling themselves Tugri, near the border of
[166]
China. The word root of the ethnonym could be the IIr. *tura-quick, prompt,
tura-powerful, OI tur-strong, Kurd. tr wild, unruly. The designation of
Av.
[167]
Tokharian is actually Tugri (tw(ry).

This is identical with the name of the
country Tukri(), which we know already early in the documents of Sargon of
[168]
Akkad
and in which the sibilant in the end of the name is probably a native case
[169]
inflexion.
Moreover, the current names of Tehran (Tehr~n) and Tari (suburb
North of Tehran) may be connected with the old forms *Tu(r~n and *Tu(ri (~
h
h
Tukri), namely after the palatalization of *g to and then to h (*(~ *g > * , >
[170]
h) . The supposed geographical location of Tukri in the surroundings of Tehran

(see Aryans 6.2.3.6), supports the formal correspondence. Parallel to this, the
geographical name amir~n, a region North of Tehran, probably represents a
connection with Sarm (see Aryans 5.4.2.7).
4.7.8. Arman(i), Arman(um) It was situated in the north-west of the Iranian Highland,
extended at times from Caucasus up to Anatolia and the North of Mesopotamia. The
ethnonym Armanu and Armani could be the renderings of *Ari-mnu and *Ari-mani
and could consist of ari-Aryan and mnu-man and *mani-embellishment
respectively (see Aryans 5.4.1.12). So the ethnonym of the Armenians could
originally have meant Aryan man or adornment of the Aryans.
5. Conclusion
The Aryan form for the designation of copper and iron in Sumerian (see above 4.3
and Aryans 4.2.3; 6.2.1.2), together with the old geographical names of Sumer, such
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ki
ki
as Amarda , Aria , Buranum Euphrates, Idigina (Idigna) Tigris, eri Akkad,

probably also Laga (see above 4.2; 4.6 and Aryans 5.4.1.6; 5.4.1.7; 5.4.2.3; 6.1.1),
as well as the mythological personages (see above 4.4 and Aryans 5.1.6) and finally
theonyms and ethnonyms (see above 4.7 and Aryans 5.3; 5.4; 6.2), wittnes not only
the early influence of the archaic Aryan on the Sumerian language, but corroborate
the thesis about a pre-Sumerian Aryan population of Mesopotamia, thus, before the
invasion of the Sumerians into Mesopotamia. This view is supported by
archaeological indications (see Aryans 5.4.1.10) as well as by some very basic
Sumerian words, which are probably borrowed from the archaic Aryan:
Sum. ab, aba sea ~ IIr.OAv. ap-, OIA p- water;
Sum. Bgar arable land ~ PIE *aro arable land;
Sum. ab-ba old, father ~ IE *ao-s grandfather, OIran. -~vaka-(cf. Aryans
6.1.8);
Sum. bala spindle, an instrument of wood and metal ~ PIE *peleu soil hoe (see
Aryans 6.2.1.4);
Sum. gu4 bull, cattle ~ OIran. g~o, gav-, gau-, g~u, OI g<u, -gd-bull cattle;
Sum. kur mountain, mountains ~ PIE *H(e/o)kor summit of the mountain;

Sum. PA.TE master, supervisor (in PA.TE.SI) ~ proto-Iran. *pati-, IIr.OAv.
paiti-master ~ OIA pti-master, sovereign (see Aryans 6.2.2.4);
Sum. Br king < OIran. sare-rule (see above 3.2.1.1);
h
Sum. tjr yard, enclosure, cattle-yard ~ PIE *d wer-yard, door (IE *dhr-);
h
Sum. gukin gold (after the change w > g) < PIE *(a)wes(k )-gold (see above
3.2.5); as well as word from elsewhere in the Near East, like:
h
Akk. matu, matqu(m) sweet < PIE *med u-honey, honey drink, OI mdhusweet drink, honey, Av. ma*u-beery wine;
h
Eg. bj.t bee, honey < PIE *b ei-bee;
Akk. untu vessel < PIE *naHw-ship, vessel, OI nu-, Av.OP. n~v ship,
h
boat; Akk. dunu panic, millet < PIE *d oHn~-grain, OI dh~n:-~ NP d~na grain
[171]
seed, grain etc.

as well as appellatives in connection with the proto-Persian
people (see above 4.3.2 and Aryans 6.2.1.2) and other examples (see NE.Aryans).
18
Abbreviations
Aryans
NE.Aryans
Derakhshani 1998 (99) (see endnote 1)

Derakhshani (to be published, see endnote 1)
For other bibliographical abbreviation see Aryans.
Akk.
Amurr.
Arab.
Aram.
Arm.
ANE
Assyr.
Att.
Av.
Eg.
El.
Engl.
Gen.
Germ.
Heb.
HG
Hier.
Hitt.
Hurr.
IE
IIr.
Khot.
Kurd.
Lat.
Med.
MIA
MIran
MP
MParth.
NAv.
NP
Akkadian
Amurrit, Amorite
Arabic
Aramaic
Armenian
Aryan in the Near East
Assyrian
Attic
Avestan
Egyptian
Elamite
English
Genitive
German
Hebrew
High German
Hieroglyphic
Hittite
Hurrian
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Khotan-Saka
Kurdish
Latin
Median
Middle Indo-Aryan
Middle Iranian
Middle Persian
Manichaean Parthian
New Avestan
New Persian
19
OAv.
OChSl.
OHG
OI
OIA
OIcel.
OIran.
Oss.
Pahl.
Parth.
Pl.
PIE
Sum.
Tokh.
Ved.
OldAvestan
Old Church Islandic
Old High German
Old Indic
Old Indo-Aryan
Old Icelandic
Old Iranian
Ossetic
Pahlavi
Parthian
Plural
Proto-Indo-European
Sumerian
Tokharian
Vedic
Explanation of Signs
< originated from
> developed to
* not attested, merely reconstructed
V vowel of uncertain quality
~ a sign for likeness
= in connection with
Rendering of Words and Names

martmartu
dusu
G;NA
WR
HERODOTUS
Aryan, Indo-European
Near Eastern with (probably) Aryan, Indo-European root
non-Aryan, non-Indo-European
ideogram, polyvalent
ideogram with (probably) Aryan root
name of author
Meaning of the Determinatives (Sum., Akk.)

bad fortress
d (dingir god) for theonyms
gi (Sum. tree, wood) before trees and wooden objects
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ur.sag mountain
ki after names of places and countries (geographical names)
kur, mat before names of countries and mountains
ld (Sum. man) before names of professions and tibes
na
4 (Sum. stone) before stones

uru town
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Notes:
[1]
J. DERAKHSHANI, Grundzhge der Vor- und Frhhgeschichte Irans. Geschichte und Kultur des Alten
Ostiran. Band I, Heft 1: Die Zeit Zarathustras, Rekonstruktion der Altiranischen Chronologie, Teheran
nd
1995; id. 1998 (2 ed. 1999), Die Arier in den nahstlichen Quellen des 3. und 2. Jahrtausends v.Chr. =
Iran & Caucasus II (1998): 141-237, here abbreviated as Aryans; id. Heft 2: Die Arier im Alten Vorderen
und Mittleren Orient. Evidenzen seit dem 4. Jahrtausend vChr. vom Iranischen Hochland bis ?gypten, to
be published (here abbreviated as NE.Aryans).
[2]
Cf. BRUNNER 1969, Die gemeinsamen Wurzeln des semitischen und indogermanischen
Wortschatzes: passim; DOLGOPOLSKY 1989, Cultural Contacts of Proto-Indo-European and ProtoIndo-Iranian with Neighbouring Languages, Folia Linguistica Historica 18, 1-2: 3-36.
[3]
KAMMENHUBER 1969, Hethitisch, Palaisch, Luwisch und Hieroglyphenluwisch, FRIEDRICH et

al. (eds.) 1969, Altkleinasiatische Sprachen, HbO, 1. Abtl., 2. Band, 1. u. 2. Abschnitt, Lief. 2.: 248. 340;
RISCH 1971, Die griechische Sprachwissenschaft nach der Enzifferung der mykenischen Schrift,
SCHMITT-BRANDT (ed.) 1971, Domnum Indogermanicum, Festgabe fr Anton Scherer zum 70.
Geburtstag: 108.
[4]
MALLORY 1989: 152.

[5]
HbZ: 292b; Air.Wb.: 1564. 1565.

[6]
Frisk i: 784ff. 826ff.;Walde 1965,Lateinisches Etymologisches Wrterbuch, 4th edition., i: 203; KEWA
iii: 341. 369; EWAia. ii: 638. 653; Pokorny 1959: 574ff.; Horn 1893, 692.
[7]
FJI xi: 376b-377a. 381a.b.

[8]
FJI xi: 377a-381b.
21
[9]
FJI xi: 253b.

[10]
Cf. Dehkhod}: 16257c. 16278a. 16319a. 16320b; Horn 1893, 863; Hbschmann 1895, 863 (no
etymology offered); Pokorny 1959: 575; Frisk ii: 7.
[11]
EWAia. ii: 624. 650; KEWA iii: 316. 365; Frisk II: 53ff.; for contra cf. Pokorny 1959: 592ff. derived
from IE *eu-, *e?-, *-, *~-swell, vault, arch.
[12]
For contra cf. Pokorny 1959: 524. 541: Held hero from IE *kal-, *kali-, *kalu-beautiful, healthy;
Herr sir from IE *ei-, *ei-ro-dark, gray, brown.
[13]
Melchert 1993, Cuneiform Luvian Lexicon: 190. 193; Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1994, Indo-European
and Indo-Europeans: 404.
[14]
Max MLLER 1900, MVAG 5: 12; BARNETT 1975, CAH II, part 2: 373.
[15]
AHW: 260a. 1182b. 1188-1189; SDG: 941.

[16]
AHW: 936; SDG: 940.

[17]
AHW: 14a. 33a; SDG: 968; Pokorny 1959: 575.

[18]
Borger 1978, Assyrisch-babylonische Zeichenliste, AOAT 33: 177; SDG : 918; GHwD: 544. 546ff.
[19]
SumGl.: 1. 3; AHW: 498b. 557a. 667a; SDG: 15. 17.

[20]
SumGl.: 3; AHW: 1189a; SDG : 21.

[21]
SumGl.: 113; Borger 1978, AOAT 33: 131; SDG: 529.

[22]
SumGl.: 76ff. 172; Borger 1978, AOAT 33: 100. 142; Falkenstein 1978, Grammatik der Sprache
Gudeas von Laga I: 126; SDG: 298ff. 637.
[23]
AHW: 492a; SDG i: 637.

[24]
Falkenstein 1978 i: 59. 116; SDG: 538.

[25]
PF, 646, 5 (Hallock 1969: 712); this name has been vocalized as Kaara and suggested to be deriven
22
from Med. *k~sara-small jewel (OnP, 8.796; Hinz 1975: 150). But the loss of i in the transcription
gives no priority to this interpratation; therefore, this name may present an Old Iran. *Kaisara < *Kavisarah great king; to this cf. Iran. *Kaifr~da-> Akk. Ki-e-ip-ra-da-a.
[26]
Cameron 1936: 71-72; CHI ii: 10. 12. 28.

[27]
EWb.: 420. 468. 1098.

[28]
AHW i: 449a.
[29]
Falkenstein 1978, Grammatik der Sprache Gudeas von Laga, ii Syntax: 17; SDG ii: 1008.
[30]
Cf. SDG: 265ff.; 330.

[31]
For api-cf. OnP, 8.84; 8.85; 8.97: a composite with *api- (*abi-).
[32]
Cf. MAYRHOFER 1979, 209, Kauu~ta-the founder of the Kauui Dynasty.

[33]
Air.Wb.: 442b.
[34]
Yt. 13, 114. 119. 123; Air.Wb.: 443; MAYRHOFER 1979, 210.
[35]
SAK: 174.
[36]
Cf. the OIA kJsara-the hair of the head, mane ~ Lat. caesaris the hair of the head, caesar and
later the OHG keisar < Got. kaisar emperor, as well as the Iranian toponyms as Kiy~sar, Kiy~sar~ etc.,
and finally Kayseri in Central Anatolia; (EWAia. I: 401; KEWA I: 268; WALDE & HOFFMANN
1965ff., Lateinisches Etymologisches Wrterbuch I: 133; Duden: Deutsches Universal Wrterbuch,
1989: 799a; for the Iran toponyms cf. FJI XI: 400b, 3568-69. 3570-72).
[37]
OnP, 8.602; 8.652.

[38]
ARAB I, 587.
[39]
For the topic The Time Zoroasters cf. DERAKHSHANI 1995, Die Zeit Zarathustras.
[40]
Cf. Kronasser 1957,"Indisches in den Nuzi-Texten", WZKM 53: 187-8; AHW i: 322a s.v.
aptara(ma)nnu, Adj. for describing horses; see also von Soden 1957, ZA 52 NF 18: 337.
23
[41]
FRISK I: 610; EWAia. I: 742; SCHMITT-BRANDT 1998: 98. 102. 179. 277.
[42]
KEWA iii: 567; EWAia. ii: 793ff.

[43]
Cf. Aryans 5.4.3 footnote 544; for the interchange of w/p in Hurrian cf. SPEISER 1941, Introduction
to Hurrian: 38. 41-44; BUSH 1999, A Grammar of the Hurrian Language: 72; cf. also Hurr. w/pandari
cook; wur-/pur-to see; pae < *ve+ae; pe < *ve+e; (Wegner 2000, Hurritisch. Eine Einfhrung:
49-51. 236. 239. 260).
[44]
Cf. JACKSON 1892, An Avesta Grammar: 46; cf. also the Sogd. xor, NP xwar, Oss. xor sun, OIA
svBr-(EWAia. II: 793 ff.; Hbschmann 1895, Persische Studien: 57; POKORNY 1959: 881).
[45]
WEGNER 1988, Grammatische und lexikalische Untersuchungen hurritischer Beschwrungsformeln aus Bo?azky; HAAS (ed.) 1988, Hurriter und Hurritisch: 147. 300.
[46]
MAYRHOFER 1989, CLI: 7; EWAia. II: 542.

[47]
For contra cf. the suggested derivation from the IIr.Iran. *spi2ra-, NAv. Spiti white ~ OIA.OI
vitr<-white, whitish (EWAia. II: 679; KEWA III: 406; cf. also MoP: 178); yet cf. the IIr. NAv. spata-,
OP *sata-, NP sapd white, MP spt in relation to the OIA.OI vet<-white (EWAia. II: 679; KEWA
III: 406; Air.Wb.: 1609). However it remains unclear how the word-stem for white had developed into
sky which is blue.
[48]
NPN: 260b; GELB 1944, Hurrians and Subarians: 107; for more names with uwar-= svBr-see
Aryans 6.3.22.
[49]
Cf. Derakhshani, Geschichte und Kultur des Kai-Volks (to be published in 2002).
[50]
Pokorny 1959: 86ff.; GAMKRELIDZE et al. 1995: 615. 618. 826.

[51]
Cf. AHW i: 509b.

[52]
THIEME 1938, Fremdling in Rigveda: 10ff. u. passim; EWAia. I: 111-12; POKORNY 1959: 24.
[53]
Cf. POKORNY 1959: 67.

[54]
?HW: 15; GHw?D: 82a; SZEMERNYI (1977, Indo-European Kinship, Acta Iranica VII: 148)
24
indeed accepts the relation between the Eg. ry ~ Ugar. <ry with the Aryan word ari-, arya-, however he
suspects obviously with regard to the theory of the later migration of the Aryans, of a word-stem of a
Near Eastern origin. For contra see Aryans 4.1.1, footnote 55.
[55]
?HW: 15 s.v. rj; GHw?D: 464b.

[56]
For rp)t prince s. ?HW: 94; GHw?D: 464b.

[57]
For the discussion on arri Aryan or urri Hurrian see NE.Aryans., cf. however the rendering of
Iran. arya-by El. Har-ri, correspondingly Akk. ar-ri/ ar-ra (see Aryans 6.1.1).
[58]
SZEMERINYI 1977, Acta Iranica VII: 147.

[59]
BRANDENSTEIN & MAYRHOFER 1964: 11.

[60]
CORNELIUS 1960, Genesis XIV, ZATW 72: 3.

[61]
LBE, 243; for er~nu cf. FALKENSTEIN 1964, Sumerische Religi`se Texte, ZA 56 NF 22: 63 n. 39;
WILCKE 1969, Das Lugalbandaepos: 187.
[62]
AHW I: 386a; GudCyl A XV, 23; WILCKE 1969: 187ff.; MSL 5: 113, 250 with note e.
[63]
For the location of Erin east of Sumer in the Iranian Highland see NE.Aryans.
[64]
gi
ki
kur- erin (KRAMER 1944, The Epic of Gilgame and its Sumerian Sources, JAOS 64: 14a, n.
48) literally the mountainous country of the erin-trees, yet interpreted by the author of the present work
ki
as the mountainous country Erin rich in forests (see NE.Aryans); Innin.Erin (ITT II-1 641; RA 19: 44
ki
ki
cited by BUCCELLATI 1966: 52) and Inanna.Erin Susa (UET I, 210. 211. 289), M.EREN
Susa (see Aryans 5.1.5).
[65]
Ern mainly meant eastern soldiers. In a list from the time of Amar-Sin (2047-2039 B.C.) ern
man, soldier occurs in connection with geographical names, for qualifying places outside Babylon and
partly east of Tigris. Contrary to guru native soldiers ern obviously meant soldiers from the eastern
neighbouring countries (GOETZE 1963, akkanakus of the Ur III Empire, JCS 17: 4-6; GELB 1973,
Prisoners of War in Early Mesopotamia, JNES 32: 85).
[66]
EWAia I: 711ff. 723ff.; KEWA II: 28ff. 38ff.; BRANDENSTEIN & MAYRHOFER 1964: 113ff.
25
[67]
Cf. HAUPT 1881, Akkadische und sumerische Keilschrifttexte, Assyrologische Bibliothek I: 124f. as
well as the commentary by MEISSNER 1943, lirnu, lirinu, Orientalia NS 12: 192-193.
[68]
MEISSNER 1943 , Orientalia NS 12: 193.

[69]
VON SODEN 1936, ZA 43 (NF 9): 236, Z. 51. 60, as well as 48. 61. 62. 65. 127. 140. 141. 150. 165;
for the interpretation non-flowing, standing water see AHW I: 529a; for martu ~ amard, amu ~
Amurru ~ }mul (*}mur) see Aryans 5.4.1.4, for erin see Aryans 5.1.3.
[70]
Kammenhuber 1968, Die Arier im Vorderen Orient: 106. 176 n. 526.

[71]
For the date of the earliest presence of the Hurrians and their cultural influence see NE.Aryans.
[72]
GERSHEVITCH 1969, Amber at Persepolis: 219, s.v. Pirnu; OnP, 8. 1320.

[73]
PINCHES 1017, The Language of the Kassites, JRAS 1917: 112; HLSCHER 1996, Die
Personennamen der Kassitenzeitlichen Texte aus Nippur: 38b.
[74]
Cf. *Am:-vanya-victorious by force, aiwi.vanyah-victorious etc. (OnP, 8.53; 8.104; 8.237; 8.667;
8.780; 8.880; 8.929; 8.942; 8.946; 8.1115; 8.1152; 8.1503).
[75]
Cf. * T~ga-van-loving wreath, OP *Vanuka-etc. (OnP, 8.335; 8.954; 8.1115).

[76]
HINZ 1975, Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenberlieferungen: 40.

[77]
EWAia. I: 566; cf. *Vahu-zana- (OnP, 8.1030); see also Aryans 6.3.27: Wau-zana.
[78]
)A-ri-ya (ALBRIGHT 1934, The Vocalization of the Egyptian Syllabic Orthography, AOS 5: 33, III,
5; 49,X, B 1).
[79]
A-ri-u/i *A-ri-ka, A-ri-ri, *A-ri-a-a, Ai-ri-arru (TALLQVIST 1966, Assyrian Personal Names:
29a-30a).
[80]
TALLQVIST 1966, Assyrian Personal Names: 29b; for Arija from Barua see BRANDENSTEIN &
MAYRHOFER 1964: 2.
[81]
For the representation of :riya- an Aryan in the form from the El. Hariya cf. OnP, 8.458; see also
the El. harriya an Aryan (EWb. I: 636); for the representation of /*/ in The Akkadian through // see
26
UNGNAD 1969, Grammatik des Akkadischen: 12; for the transcription of the last ayin through see
SPEISER 1933, AASOR 13: 39 as well as ALBRIGHT 1952, BASOR 125: 27.
[82]
Cf. the Scyth. name Ariapeites (HERODOT IV, 78).

[83]
FRISK I: 138. 557 s.v. VD4-and XD4-.

[84]
For the interpretation stranger proposed by THIEME 1938, Der Fremdling im Rigveda: 161165;
Aryans 6.1.1, footnote 606.
[85]
FRISK I: 138 after SPECHT, KZ 68: 42f; R. SCHMITT 1967, Dichtung und Dichtersprache in
indogermanischer Zeit: 33. 132.
[86]
k\:Li@H loudly (strongly) roaring, k\(*@LB@H, k4$kg:XJ0H loudly (strongly) roaring,

k4"bP0< having a long (strong) neck, k\$T8">, k\$T8@H having high (strong) clods, k4Fhg<ZH
having strong power, k4FJVnL8@H having strong cluster (THIEME 1938: 164165).
[87]
THIEME 1938: 161; R. SCHMITT 1967: 33. 132.

[88]
FRISK I: 140.
[89]
R. SCHMITT 1967: 34.

[90]
THIEME 1938: 165, yet see there (note 1) k4H strife in comparison to hostis, hostilia (cf. also
above 4.1.1).
[91]
FRISK I: 76-77, according to SPECHT 68: 42 ff.

[92]
Cf. Frisk I: 498: no convincing etymology exists.

[93]
AHW: 68a; EWb.: 83.

[94]
Cf. STRAKE 1990, Untersuchung zur Stammbildung des keilschrift-luwischen Nomens, StBoT 31:
303; MELCHERT 1993, Cuneiform Luvian Lexicon: 26-27; for IE root *er-cf. Pokorny 1959: 326-330.
[95]
For contra cf. Frisk I: 560; Walde 1965 I: 67; Pokorny 1959: 326.
[96]
POKORNY 1959: 872ff.; EWAia. II: 453. 484; KEWA III: 67. 119; FRISK I: 567.
27
[97]
POKORNY 1959: 873; SCHERER 1950 [1968], Die Urheimat der Indoger-manen: 296; KEWA III:
67. 119; SCHMITT-BRANDT 1998, Einfhhrung in die Indogerma-nistik: 286; otherwise
GAMKRELIDZE et al. 1995, Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: 616: Sum. loanword in the
Indo-European (~ Akk. Purattu Euphrates), though for Purattu see above 4.6; it is improbable that the
exported copper of Iranian origin (see Aryans 4.2.3) had borrowed the designation of this metal from the
importers.
[98]
FALKENSTEIN 1936, Archaische Texte from Uruk: 55-636.

[99]
REITER 1997: 151; cf. also SDG I: 639.

[100]
AHW II: 837b; cf. also Judaica XIII: 288b; for parzilli iron in the Nar~msin text see: GURNEY
1955, The Sultantepe Tablets, Anatolian Studies 5: 102, Z. 83.
[101]
KEWA II: 257.

[102]
Cf. WALDE 1965, Lateinisches Etymologisches Wrterbuch I: 486; also SCHMITT-BRANDT

deduces the Lat. ferrum < *bhersom < *BARSA- from the Semitic (Hebr. barzel) (SCHMITT-BRANDT
1998: 286); yet in a personal conversation he agreed with the possibility of the direct descent from
Aryan, suggested by the author.
[103]
AHW II: 837b; SDG I: 65; WILCKE 1969, Lugalbandaepos: 56, Z. 110; 59 n. 212.
[104]
MACDONELL 1898, Vedic Mythology: 114; EWAia I: 36-37.

[105]
WINTERNITZ 1910, A General Index to the Names and Subject-Matter of the Sacred Books of the
East: 40.
[106]
RV IX, 3, 1; IX, 33, 1; cf. MACDONELL 1898: 106. 152.

[107]
RV VIII, 5, 26; see GRASSMANN, Rig-Veda I: 397.

[108]
MACDONELL et al. 1912, Vedic Index of Names and Subjects I: 1.

[109]
JENSEN 1928, aps-Aps RLA I: 122a-124b.

[110]
RV I, 23, 19: apsu ntr amtam aps bhesjm in the water is the vitality, in the water is the healing
28
power; THIEME 1952, Studien zur Indogermanischen Wortkunde und Religionsgeschichte: 21.
[111]
EDZARD 1989, Marad, Marda, RLA VII: 351a; EDZARD & FARBER 1974, RGTC 2: 116;
GRONEBERG 1980, RGTC 3: 159; NASHEF 1982, RGTC 5: 184.
[112]
DELITZSCH 1881, Wo lag das Paradies?: 220.

[113]
DELITZSCH loc. cit.; EDZARD 1989, RLA VII: 351a.

[114]
HS 2009, inscription 1, col. III, line 10 = EDZARD 1960, Neue Inschriften zur Geschichte von Ur
III unter suen, AfO 19: 7; EDZARD & FARBER 1974, RGTC 2: 118.
[115]
KAMMENHUBER 1968, Die Arier im Vorderen Orient: 124; AHW III: 1437a, see there Erim and
id
buranun; cf. also the Sum. Buranun(a) (L, 381, 270); for more attested forms see alsoGTERBOCK
1964, Sargon of Akkad mentioned by attuili I of atti, JCS 18: 3.

[116]
Bh. I, 19; according to Rdiger SCHMITT the native name Euphrates is etymologically remodelled
in Iranian (ufr~tu-probably with good fords and from there penetrated into Greek (R. SCHMITT 1967,
Medisches und persisches Sprachgut bei Herodot, ZDMG 117: 122 n. 32); cf. also Air.Wb.: 1830;
KENT 1953, Old Persian: 176a-b; MAYRHOFER 1990, Iranisches Personnamenbuch, Bd. V, Fasc. 6a:
Iranische Namen in den griechischen Dokumenten gyptens: 55.
[117]
POKORNY 1959: 817 s.v. IE *per-tu.

[118]
NASHEF 1991, Die Orts- und Gewssernamen der altassyrischen Zeit, RGTC 4: 144; see also
Aramza (RGTC 5: 341).
[119]
Gozide-h~ye Z~dsparam (ed. R}SHED-MOHASSEL) 3, 22; 34, 10.

[120]
GudCyl A 1, 9. 28, 13; B 5, 13. 17, 10; FALKENSTEIN 1949, Grammatik der Sprache Gudeas von
Laga I: 61; KAMMENHUBER 1968, Die Arier im Vorderen Orient: 123.
[121]
KENT 1953, Old Persian: 186b.

[122]
D~dist~n-i Dnk 92, 2, (ed. WEST, Pahlavi Texts II: 262 n. 4); MARKWART 1901, r~nahr:
157; id. 1938, Wehrot und Arang: 116. 136.
[123]
Air.Wb.: 200; MOP: 30b.
29
[124]
The name of the country Rnw (Northern Palestine, Syria) first appears in the narration about
Sinuhe (Sinuhe B 99-100. 229; see also ARE I, 494); later it repeatedly occurs in the Egyptian documents
(ARE II., 413. 439. 477. 596. 616 etc.).
[125]
HELCK 1971, Die Beziehungen gyptens zu Vorderasien im 3. und 2. Jahrtausend, 2. Aufl.: 268.
[126]
Yt.10, 15. 67. 133; 12, 9;Vpr. 10, 1; Vd. 19, 39, GBd 68, 4; D~dest~n-i dng XXXVI, 5 (SBE XVIII:
79).
[127]
Air.Wb.: 202; HbZ: 30a; cf. the OIA r<jas-darkness, rajas< dark, gloomy, Sskr. r<jas (EWAia.
II: 426; HbZ: 30a; see also KEWA III: 34 f.; Wrterbuch der Mythologie IV: 374); cf. also
GERSHEVITCH (1959, The Avestan Hymn to Mithra: 217), who following HENNING (Sogdia 1940: 28
f.) localises ar?zah-in the east and savah-in the west.
[128]
Subartu (Suria = Suri < Subria < ubari = Subartu) (LEWY 1924, ZA 35 NF 1: 1456; GOETZE
1946, JNES 5: 166b; TVEDTNES 1981, The Origin of the Name Syria, JNES 40: 139); for Subartu
see above 4.7.3; for the OI Srya-god of the sun see Aryans 8.2.1.4, footnote 952; for the connection
with the Suriy~n of the Sh~hn~meh see NE.Aryans; cf. also the Arab. al-~m Syria < MP ~m
evening, west (see Aryans 5.4.2.6).
[129]
Today scholars agree concerning the location of the country of Aratta in Eastern Iran; cf.
MAJIDZADEH 1976, The land of Aratta, JNES 35: 110ff.
[130]
MAYRHOFER 1960: 145 n. 66 after SPEISER 1941, Introduction to Hurrian: 27f., 38.
[131]
Yt. 57, 31; Yt. 10, 15.67. 133; 12, 15, Vd. 19, 39; Vp. 10.1.
[132]
MONCHI-ZADEH 1975, Topographisch-Historische Studien zum Iranischen Nationalepos, AKM

41, 2: 22.
[133]
For contra cf. GERSHEVITCH 1959, The Avestan Hymn to Mithra: 176, 15 : X aniratha-selffounded.
[134]
BAHRAMI 1990, Dictionary of the Avesta I: 494.

[135]
IBN KHURD}DBIH: 22; Arabization of ?arg (MARKWART 1938, Wehrot und Arang: 146, n. 5); s.
also MONCHI-ZADEH 1975, Topographisch-Historische Studien zum Iranischen Nationalepos: 126.
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[136]
MONCHI-ZADEH 1975: 126.

[137]
HERODOTUS VII, 61. 150.; MARQUART 1986,Untersuchungen zur Geschichte von Eran I: 234.
[138]
The periplus of the Erythraean Sea (Ed. W. SCHOFF, New York 1912): 41.
[139]
RV I, 59, 1.
[140]
ARE I, 728.
[141]
ARE II, 844.

[142]
L i: 213a.
[143]
ARE I, 311.
[144]
HAYES 1971, CAH I, 2: 487; POSENER 1971, CAH I, 2: 535; GARDINER 1962, Geschichte des
Alten gyptens: 132.
[145]
Yt. 1, 21; 5, 17. 104. 112; 9, 25. 29; 15, 2; 17, 49.61; Vd. 1, 2(3); 2,21; 19,2.
[146]
Bnd XX, 13 = WEST 1880, Pahlavi-Texts I: 78; JUSTI 1868, Der Bundehesh: 29; Air.Wb.: 730;
DOUSTKH}H, Avesta II: 981.
[147]
The origin of the Subarians, their language and different phases of Hurrian and its connections with
Aryan is the topic of study in the Main Work (NE.Aryans).
[148]
RV I, 96, 3; V, 11, 1; MACDONELL et al. 1912, Vedic Index I: 167-9. 218. 317 etc.; s. id. vol. II:
94ff., as well as Index page 549b; EWAia II: 249ff; see also HAUSSIG 1984, W`rterbuch der Mythologie
V: 50.
[149]
UNGNAD 1936, Subartu: 109. 110.

[150]
UNGNAD 1936: 110.

[151]
GTERBOCK 1934, Die historische Tradition und ihre literarische Gestaltung bei Babyloniern und
Hethitern bis 1200., Teil 1, ZA 42: 40, Z. 11.
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[152]
Sargon C 7 = GELB et al. 1990, Die Altakkadischen Knigsinschriften des Dritten Jahrtausends v.
Chr.: 179-81; C 13 = ibid.: 187-88; b 15 = HIRSCH 1963, AfO 20: 51; b 16 = ibid.: 51; KAV 92 = VAT
8006, Z. 33 = WEIDNER 1953, AfO 16: 4. 20; GRAYSON 1977, AfO 25: 62. 63.
[153]
JENSEN 1900, Ki, ZA 15: 230 (cf. there the erroneous conclusion, Parai =
Susiana);GTERBOCK 1938, ZA 44: 78; GOETZE 1946, JNES 5: 167a; id. 1953, JNES 12: 118 n. 21;
cf. also EDZARD 1957, Die Zweite Zwischenzeit Babylons: 73 n. 352; RLA VII: 381a ff.
[154]
GTERBOCK 1938, ZA 44: 78; GOETZE 1946, JNES 5: 166a; WEIDNER 1953; AfO 16: 20; for
the phonetic change (v > b) and (m > v) in Iranian cf. GEIGER 1898-1901, Grundri der Iranischen
Philologie I, 2. Abt.: 236.
[155]
EWAia.. II: 87; KEWA II: 213; HAUSSIG 1984, Wrterbuch der Mythologie V: Gtter und Mythen
des Indischen Subkontinents: 106.
[156]
JACOBSEN 1953, The Reign of Ibb-Suen, JCS 7: 40, n. 47.

[157]
GudCyl A XIV, 7-9 in SAK: 104. 105; JACOBSEN 1953, JCS 7: 40, n. 47.
[158]
HENNING 1978, The First Indo-Europeans in History, ULMEN (ed.) 1978, Society and History,
Essays in Honour of Karl August Wittfogel: 215-230; for the Indo-European origin of the Gutians cf. also
CHRISTIAN 1928, Das erste Auftreten der Indogermanen in Vorderasien, MAGW 58: 210-229;
SPEISER 1930, Mesopotamian Origins: 101.
[159]
HENNING 1978: 221-225; cf. there (p. 222) Yhe-chih in the Middle Chinese (600 B.C.) form ngwyt-ti < Old Chinese ngw|t-(g); see also NARAIN 1987: 8 and passim.
[160]
Borh~n: 1722b + n. 3; DEHKHODA 1967, Loghatn~meh 40: 307a; HAUSSIG (Hrsg.) 1986,
W`rterbuch der Mythologie IV: 492.
[161]
POKORNY 1959: 587-591.

[162]
KEWA III: 379; IAL, 3521. 12634.

[163]
Sh~hn~meh, Moskau, Siy~vu, 616; KHALEGHI MOTLAGH (Ed.), 606; there Ku? appears
together with Balu?
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[164]
HENNING 1949, Asia Major I: 159 n. 2; cf. there the parallel development *Tuwr- < Tu(r-and murw
< mur(, see also MoP: 195 s.v. Tr~n; Air.Wb.: 656.
[165]
COWGILL & MAYRHOFER 1986, Indogermanische Grammatik: 48.

[166]
HAUSSIG 1986, W`rterbuch der Mythologie IV: 448 according to ABAEV.

[167]
HENNING 1949, The Name of the Tokharian Language, Asia Minor I: 158ff.; KRAUSE 1971,
Tocharisch: 7.
[168]
HENNING 1978: 225; NARAIN 1987, On the First Indo-Europeans: The Tokharian-Yuezhi and
their Chinese homeland, Papers on Inner Asia 2, Indiana University: 10.
[169]
HENNING 1978: 220.

[170]
Cf. SCHMITT-BRANDT: 86. 95 and also 121.279; SZEMRENYI 1970, Einfhhrung in die
vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft (4th ed. 1990): 57.64.
[171]
Cf. partly in KEWA I: 75. 351; II: 213; see also Derakhshani 2000, Materialien und Industrien aus
dem Iranischen Hochland in den Nahstlichen Mrkten des 4. bis 2. Jahrtausends v.Chr., Iran &
Caucasus iii-iv: 48; for a comprehensive list of Indo-European word-stems in Akkadian cf. Brunner
1969, Die gemeinsamen Wurzeln des semitischen und indogermanischen Wortschatzes; for contra cf.
GAMKRELIDZE et al. 1995: 771-773 Near-Eastern loan-words in proto-Indo-European; for this
important topic see in detail NE.Aryans.
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2. The Earliest Trace of the Aryan

millennium B.C., becomes a serious problem. This severe chronological problem,

3. Phonetic Change and the Chronology

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3.2.1.1. OIran. sare-supremacy, sar-union, communion with, or sarah-head.

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helmet as well as Av. *s~r-d~ra-, MP.NP s~l~r leader. A rare centumization of

owner, fem. iLD\" lady, regina,

and further to Engl. sir, OHG hr dignified,

magnificent and HG Herr sir.

Hier.Luw. arri above as well as surna-or

arru(m) king, prince, arratu(m) regina, princess, Heb. ar director,

, Sum. ir-a-l a sort of headband (cf. Gr. iDZ*g:<@<, Dor.

iD*g:<@< headband), ir-a-l who goes in front (on the head),

face), rj top, head, master, chief ; and furthermore, as a result of centumization:

assembly, -l force, power, victory

, Sum. -kal force, power, .kal

Sum. kal highly esteemed as well as powerful, strong,

Sum. ki-ar-ra horizon, world

, and also Iran. *kaysar, *kauuisara great king >

regent, sukkal-ma overlord, grand regent,

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(the second component ma grand

gr King, su-gr.ri-a-ra male deity

, furthermore, Akk. karballatu

( kar.bal ) cap (cf. pargu(m) cap, actually in connection with the

[sublime language] and gi (r) high).

Amorite king of the Larsa dynasty, < *Apisar or *Apiyasar;

the Kwr of the

Kavay) prince, king

(attested also as a personal name)

, cf. Kis~ri, the name of

5.4.1.5). Yet more derivations of sar-are possible.

Also Irdaara and Irtaara =

inscription of Salmanassar III (858-824 B.C.).

the Avesta (18 century B.C.)

, as well as in the Near Eastern Aryan in the mid 2

Millennium B.C. in connection with horse breeding). Even as early as in the 23

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3.2.4. The Phonetic change v > p

through OAv. hva-, huuar sun, light, sky (~

. The Aryan proto-root svr- / hva-sun appears doubly in the

Gr. Kaspioi and MIran. Ksp.

4. The trace of the Aryans in the Ancient Texts

/*ori(a)-/, /*uri(a)-/ etc., cf. the IE *ario-? master, lord

ari nomad, Eg. ry companion

), like e.g. the Sum. >ri,

, cf. the Eg. ry p)t prince

arri, inhabitant of Palestine

, Finn. orja slave (prob. borrowed from the Indo-

Iranian (see Aryans 5.4.1.7), Hit. ara companion

, a-ri-e 'Aryan people (see

stranger (Genesis 14)

eriandm, iriandm, ilianum and elanu a tree or a bush, and probably

umbaba rules over the land of Erin

rich in forests, a name, which occurs also as

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dahyu-land, as well as Khot. daha-man, NB d~h servant,

alternative interpretation as high water too brings us to the same result,

meanwhile against a Hurrian root (ar give), as occasionally supposed,

attestation precedes the beginning of the Hurrian cultural presence in Mesopotamia.

parni~ *parnu-old, *Parnu (= Parth. prnw) old man, or representing Ariv

kirma and Ari-kas

(Aryan Cassite?). Ari-wana, king of Abina ~ Av. van-win,

or van-, van-to love

and Ari-zana = *Aryazana-of Aryan origin (>

~ Av. zana-people, human race

. Ariya appearing in the

might be connected with the same root. The Assyrian

strong, very high, stranger). Assuming the meaning stranger

does not render

in many cases the original meaning.

In some cases just the meaning strong or

as numerous personal names as Uk\FJT<, Uk4FJ\T<, and others (e.g.

Greek, and moreover, a consequent rendering of Vk4-by stranger is impossible,

, and also Iran. kaysar, kauuisara great king >

Amorite king of the Larsa dynasty, < Apisar or Apiyasar;

/ori(a)-/, /uri(a)-/ etc., cf. the IE *ario-? master, lord

parni~ parnu-old, Parnu (= Parth. prnw) old man, or representing Ariv

contamination of otha-and Aryan kaupha-, cf. OIA kopha-hill, mountain (= Av.