Words in Hittite for meaning 1-620 "darkness"

LatinTrans
nanakussiya-

Comment

'Dark, obscure, gloomy ' (adj.), opposite of lalukkiwant- 'luminous, shining' 15.570: CHD 4:394-395. Sumerogram GE[six] 'black, night' = dankui- 'dark, black' adj. 15.630. See ispant 'night' 14.420; 'hell' ('dark earth') 22.230. Sumerogram AN.TA.LÙ 'darkening' (astrological, as of the moon): HZL, HW; kappant- 'waning (of the moon)' from kappi- 'small' (Weeks 20).

Original IDS Data

nana(n)kussiya-