Personal name · Hurrian
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Ḫaru (Hurrian personal name); rival the Semitic name Ḫayru 'Excellent'
- Reading
- Ḫaru
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Hurrian Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 2
- Lexicon
- A-RU
Commentary
Ḫaru, the Nuzi name Ḫa-a-ru (NPN 55), beside TU-SU-PU₂ Tešub on HT 49a. Rival: the Eblaite name ha-ru₁₂ ḫayru ‘excellent’ (Pagan 1998, row 2259).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry A-RU.
- HurrianNuzi Ḫa-a-ru, [Ḫa]-a-ru(m), f. of Alkiya (NPN 55); element ḫaru, cross-referred to ḫar ‘H.? Anatolian?’, with Ḫa-ru-se-en-ni at Ras Shamra (NPN 214)
- Eblaiteha-ru₁₂ ḫayruha-ru₁₂ ḫayru ‘excellent’, the rival (Pagan 1998, row 2259); *ḫVyVr- ‘be favourable’