Talk:Washukanni

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I don't understand, why isn't there more research into the relation between Hurrians, Mitanni and Kurds? Geographically and linguistically at the centre of the Kurdish world =/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.129.211 (talk) 00:06, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kurdish descends from Median, which is definitely on the Iranic side of Indo-Iranian, while the Indic element in Mitanni is definitely from the Indic side. The -anni suffix means land, place, country of, as in Mitanni, land of Mitra (Mithra, Mithras). Mike Nassau (talk) 21:58, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Its name can be on many languages... but its most probable that the word Washukanni or its parts evoluted during the 3.000 yrs period... on relation with Hurrians pretending also Nakh-Daghestani people that have many similarities in language structure, basic glossary similarities, social structure, architecture (mostly with Urartian), religion(pagan, nowadays theyr Muslim). Some scholars even put them (Hurrians and Nakh-Daghs) in Alarodian group... Anyway Mitanni as any other Hurrian state wasnt mono-ethnic so it pobable were living to different ethnic groups as Arameans, Proto-Kurds etc... Nakh 04:21, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's pretty well established that the ruling class of the Mitanni were (at least at some point) Indic speakers, while most of the population of the area were Hurrian speakers (though, doubtless other's were present, perhaps including proto-Kurds, though I know of no direct evidence of their presence there at this time). The first element of Wassukanni (unless the name does precede the presence of the Indic element there) was probably related to either Sanskrit Vasu- (class of Gods) or, if the double -ss- in some of its forms conceals an original long preceding -a-, Sanskrit Va:su- dwelling. The latter gives a better semantic fit, but the former the better phonological fit. Johundhar (talk) 15:43, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]