Etymology

Hurrian

Hur·ri·an
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Today it means: A member of an ancient people who lived in northern Mesopotamia and created a powerful kingdom called Mitanni in the 16th-13th century BC. Full definition →

xhu 𒄷𒌨𒊑 ← Sumerian 𒄯𒊒𒌝
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The story

  1. Sumerian · derived from𒄯𒊒𒌝“a mountain cave, cavern”
  2. xhu · derived from𒄷𒌨𒊑
  3. English todayHurrian

From Hurrian 𒄷𒌨𒊑 (Ḫu-ur-ri). Falkenstein and Kramer had once connected it to Sumerian 𒄯𒊒𒌝 (ḫur-ru-um /⁠ḫurrum⁠/, “a mountain cave, cavern”) when it was misidentified as a proper name of a mountain rather than a generic term; see the epic Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.