𒀭𒅆𒄿𒌑𒄿𒉌

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Urartian

Shivini, a drawing based on an image on an Urartian bronze belt in the History Museum of Armenia

Alternative forms

  • 𒀭𒌓 (dUTU /⁠Šiuini⁠/) (heterogram)

Etymology

Possibly a Hittite borrowing: compare Hittite 𒅆𒄿𒌑𒍑 (ši-i-u2-uš /⁠šīūš⁠/, god), dative-locative singular 𒅆𒌑𒉌 (ši-u2-ni /⁠šiuni⁠/). Alternatively, connected with Hurrian 𒀭𒅆𒈪𒄀 (dši-mi-gi /⁠Šimigi⁠/, the Hurrian Sun God).

Proper noun

𒀭𒅆𒄿𒌑𒄿𒉌 (dši-i-u2-i-ni /Šiuini/)

  1. Shivini (the Urartian Sun God)

Further reading

  • Shivini on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Arutjunjan, N. V. (2001) “dŠiu̯ini”, in M. L. Xačikjan, editor, Корпус урартских клинообразных надписей [Corpus of Urartian Cuneiform Inscriptions]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 490b
  • Arutjunjan, N. V. (2001) “dUTU”, in M. L. Xačikjan, editor, Корпус урартских клинообразных надписей [Corpus of Urartian Cuneiform Inscriptions]‎ (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, →ISBN, page 424b
  • Badalyan, Miqayel (2019) “Šiuini: The Urartian Sun god”, in Pavel S. Avetisyan, Roberto Dan and Yervand H. Grekyan, editors, Over the Mountains and Far Away: Studies in Near Eastern history and archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Oxford: Archaeopress, pages 46–57
  • Diakonoff, I. M. (1971) Karl Sdrembek, transl., Hurrisch und Urartäisch (Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft; 6), Munich: R. Kitzinger, page 81
  • Friedrich, Johannes (1940) “Aus verschiedenen Keilschriftsprachen. 1-2”, in Orientalia, volume 9, pages 211–218
  • Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 793
  • Ivanov, V. V. (1961) “Iz istorii indojevropejskoj leksiki klinopisnovo xettskovo jazyka [From the History of the Indo-European Lexicon of Cuneiform Hittite]”, in Peredneaziatskij sbornik (in Russian), volume (1), pages 323–324
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2019) “Traces of Indo-European ‘Father Sky, God’ in Armenian”, in U. Bläsing, J. Dum-Tragut, T.M. van Lint, editors, Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg (Hebrew University Armenian Studies; 15), Leuven: Peeters, pages 195–196, footnote 3
  • Petrosyan, Armen (2002) “Urartakan glxavor astvacneri eṙyakə ew petutʻyan išxoġ vernaxavi cagman xndirə (K. F. Leman-Haupti cnndyan 140-amyaki aṙtʻiv) [The Triad of the Principal Gods of Urartu and the Problem of the Origin of the Ruling Elite of the State (to the 140th anniversary of K. F. Lehmann-Haupt's birth)]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Armenian), number 2, pages 248–249
  • Petrosyan, Armen (2015) Problems of Armenian Prehistory. Myth, Language, History, Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 116–125
  • Хачикян, М. Л. (1985) Хурритский и урартский языки [The Hurrian and Urartian languages] (Хурриты и урарты; 2) (in Russian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 48