Etymograph

English

Hayasa

Hayasa comes from Hittite KURᵁᴿᵁḫa-ya-ša.

  1. HittitemodernKURᵁᴿᵁḫa-ya-šatransliteratedcuneiform KURᵁᴿᵁḫa-ya-ša, a transliteration
  2. EnglishtodayHayasa

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. HittitemodernKURᵁᴿᵁḫa-ya-šatransliteratedcuneiform KURᵁᴿᵁḫa-ya-ša, a transliteration
  2. EnglishtodayHayasa

The story

The name has been compared to the ethnonym of Armenians — հայ (hay). Martirosyan derives it from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyos (‘metal’), thus "land abounding in metal".

Every English word from Hittite KURᵁᴿᵁḫa-ya-ša

Today it means

name An ancient Bronze Age kingdom mentioned in Hittite inscriptions of 16–13th centuries BC, located in northern Anatolia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Hittite KURᵁᴿᵁḫa-ya-ša / Hayasa

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