The Hurro-Urartian loan contacts of Armenian: A revision

Zsolt Simon*

Cite as Simon, Zs. 2022: The Hurro-Urartian loan contacts of Armenian: A revision. Hungarian Assyriological Review 3: 63–89.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52093/hara-202201-00029-000

Abstract

The present paper critically revises the Hurro-Urartian loanwords of Armenian as well as the alleged Armenian loans in Urartian. It argues that while the existence of the Hurro-Urartian loanword layer in Armenian is undeniable, the number of the certain cases is much smaller than previously assumed. Furthermore, none of the proposed Armenian loans in Urartian can be maintained on linguistic grounds.

Keywords: Hurrian, Urartian, Armenian, Akkadian, loanwords

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