“Hurritisch naipti ‘Weidung’, ‘Weide’ oder eine bestimmte Art von Weide,”
in Thomas Richter, Doris Prechel, Jörg Klinger (eds.), Kulturgeschichten. Altorientalische Studien für Volkert Haas zum 65. Geburtstag, Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, pp. 449-453.
The Hurrian root na(w/v)- is likely to be the one from which Nawar is derived, the term used for the hinterland of Urkesh in the inscription of Atal-shen, the identification as Nagar being unlikely. The geographical name would then mean “Weideland” (pasture grounds), with an iterative suffix -ar (p. 449).
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