Hurrian Word of the Day 163: Hurrian: "pešešḫ-" “to spill slowly” → Kurdish: "fîçq-" “to squirt, gush.” Initial p → f (regular lenition), š → ç (palatalization), and ḫ → q Compare: Old English spēowan “to flow out” → Modern English spew “to gush, squirt violently.” فیچقە

Hurrian Word of the Day 164: keb- / kib- “to place, to set, to put” Comparable to Kurdish: xêw- / xêv- • “to fit together” • “to hit” (as in with a slap, etc.) Analogy with French: • poser = “to place” • poser une gifle = “to land a slap” خێوان، خێواندن، خێڤاندن

Hurro-Urartian Word of the Day 165: Hurrian xaš- ‘apply ointment; smear; oil’ Kurdish xıš- ‘rub; apply ointment; apply a substance with friction’ خشاندن

Hurrian Word of the Day 166. Hurrian: eli — festival (held seasonally) Kurdish: hel / hêl — timing, time period, season, opportunity. هەل، هێل

Hurrian Word of the Day 167 Hurrian: turubi / turvi — “enemy, foe; hostile” Kurdish: tûre — “angry”, (tûreyi: “anger”) تووڕە

Hurro-Urartian Word of the Day 168 Hurrian: paḫ- ‘to destroy’ Kurdish: pak- ‘to destroy’ A regular sound change from ḫ to k is frequently observed in Kurdish. پەکان، پەکاندن

Hurrian Word of the Day, 169. Hurrian: neɣer-ni — “breast” Kurdish: hingil — “breast” In Kurdish, the initial h- is prothetic before a vowel (<ingil). Hurrian ɣ hardened to g, and r shifted to l. The vowels were raised (e > i), and the Hurrian suffix -ni was reduced or lost.

Hurrian Word of the Day, 170. Hurrian: taḫe (taxe) — man Kurdish: tak — person, individual Note the regular and well-known sound change from ḫ (x) → k in modern Kurdish. تاک

Hurrian Word of the Day, 171 Hurrian: xamas- "to load someone excessively"; "to oppress". Kurdish: 1) gæmış- "to wrestle", "to hit", "to make someone faint"; 2) chæws- "to oppress". چەوساندنەوە، گەمشاندن

Hurrian Word of the Day 172: Hurrian xummi “hearth, fireplace.” Kurdish kuw-ang “hearth, fireplace.” Other dialectal variations: kuwank and kuwanu. The phonetic development from xummi to kuw-ang follows regular and typical Kurdish sound changes: x > k and m > w. کوانگ، کوانوو

Hurrian Word of the Day 173 Hurrian: šaxri — orchard, garden Kurdish: šaxal — woods, forest Note: l → r is a common sound change. شەخەڵ، شێخەڵ، ئەشخەڵ

Hurro-Urartian Word of the Day 174 Urartian: abel-i — “to join, to add” Kurdish: hæwel — “to be accessible, available” In modern Kurdish, a prothetic /h/ is often added before an initial vowel, and the Urartian /b/ undergoes lenition, shifting to /w/. هەوێڵ، لە هەوێڵدا بوون

Hurro-Urartian Word of the Day 175 Hurro-Urartian: šalluri "Plum" (cf. Akkadian: šallūru; ultimately from Sumerian šennur). Kurdish: şilor / šlor "Plum". Note also Hay/Armenian salor "Plum" and Persian shalīl "Nectarine" (repurposed later for the smooth-skinned stone fruit).

Hurro-Urartian Word of the Day 176 Hurrian: xu-bi-di “calf” Kurdish: gu-wê-re+ke "calf" x/ɣ > ɣ > g (voicing and hardening) b > w (intervocalic lenition) d > r (intervocalic lenition / rhotacism) + diminutive suffix /-ke/. گوێرەکە

Hurro-Urartian Word of the Day 177 Hurrian: ihalzi “mighty, powerful.” Kurdish: haz / hêz “power.” The original word has undergone phonological reduction. هاز، هێز

Hurro-Urartian Word of the Day 178 Urartian: ure “hill”/“highland.” Kurdish: hore “highland”/“mountain,” (a prothetic h & a regular vowel shift from u to o). Notably, Kurdish also appears to preserve the well-known Sumerian term kur “mountain”, as kor “high mountain.” هۆرە، کۆڕ

Hurro-Urartian Word of the Day 179 Hurrian tali — “wood, tree” Kurdish tæl — “branch” Cf. Proto-Iranian *dā́ru — “tree, wood”; Kurdish dar — “tree” تەڵ