= Kroonen G., Hittite kapart-/kapirt - ‘small rodent’ and Proto-Semitic *ˁkbr-t- ‘mouse, jerboa’, in: IF 121 53-62. [(DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2016-0003). The Hittite doublet kapart-/kapirt-, designating a small rodent, is currently assumed to continue an Indo-European formation. Hittitologists almost unanimously analyze it as an ablauting t-stem coined from the preverb *ko(m)- ‘together’ and the Indo-European root *bher- ‘to carry’, i. e. *ko(m)-bhēr-t- or *ko(m)- bhr̥-t. Accordingly, the meaning ‘small rodent’ is explained as having developed from ‘collector’ or ‘hoarder’.] Neue Abfrage | New Search
