Words in Hittite for meaning 1-560 "thunder"

Comment

Respectively: verb, noun. HW, HEG: 'thunder' (middle inflection without -ri suffix: Yosida 1990:65). Stormgod (with preceding Sumerographic determinative DINGIR): DINGIR/ U, DINGIR/ IM and DINGIR/ ISHKUR (with or without phonetic complements) = Hattic Tarhun Luwian Tarhunta or Hurrian Tesup who showed his might via the winds, thunder, and thunderbolt (GISH/ kalmisana-. See also 'lightning' 01.570, 'storm' 01.580.

Original IDS Data

tetha(i), tethima-