Words in Hittite for meaning 2-100 "person, human being"

LatinTrans
antuhsa-
antuhha-
danduki-

Comment

Respectively 'man, person' HWW, Puh; 'mortal, transitory human being' HEG. Derivative dandukessar 'humanity, mortality, transitoriness' with disputed etymologies HEG. Sumerogram UN = antuhsa- 'man, person', UN plus phonetic complement -tar or LÚ.U[19].LU (formerly read LÚ.ULÙ-LU: HZL 130 nr. 78) = antuhsatar 'mankind, people' 19.210. In later texts Sumerogram SAG.DU 'head' was also used to mean 'person' as in the 'person of the king'. See 'head' 04.220.

Original IDS Data

antuhsa-, antu(wa)hha-; danduki-