XXVIII KNUT TALLQVIST. 
had proved in his fundamental work Einleitung in der Geschichte der Griechischen Sprache (1896) 
that the languages of Asia Minor are interrelated on phonetical, onomatological and ethnological 
grounds. With the establishment of this fact, the way lay open for a comparison on a scientific 
basis of Hittite names, not only with Cilician names, but even with those from the western part 
of Asia Minor. And further, since WINCKLER's discovery in Boghazköi established that the 
centre of the Hatti empire, circa 1500 B. C, lay in Asia Minor (Cappadocia), the Hittites and 
the peoples of Asia Minor have been brought still nearer to each other. With greater reason 
than ever before, research on the subject of Hittite names must henceforth turn its attention to 
the linguistic material found in the names in Asia Minor. BORK! and GUSTAVS? were, as far as 
I know, the first to lay stress on the importance of that material, GUSTAVS using even Carian 
(and Lycian) names for comparison with Mitannian ones. These points of view have, unfortu- 
nately, been left quite unnoticed by Professor CLAY, the latest and most thorough investigator 
of Hittite names, and he contented himself with giving a list of name elements adopted by him, 
without comments or parallels. 
For my own part, I have consistently compared Hittite names with those from Asia 
Minor. In this I have been greatly helped by my countryman Dr. SUNDWALL's excellent work 
Die einheimischen Namen der Lykier nebst einem Verzeichnisse kleinasiatischer Namenstämme in 
which the name-material offered by Asia Minor is given, critically collected and systematically 
treated, especially with regard to the elements used in the formation of the names. In the 
course of my comparisons I have come to the noteworthy conclusion, that it is not a question 
of a few accidental points of agreement, but that all the elements contained in Hittite- 
Mitannian names, with a few exceptions, are to be found in the names of Asia 
Minor also, such as they occur in (Lycian) original inscriptions or in Greek transcriptions. 
This fact would bear out the theory that Hittite-Mitannians and the original inhabitants of Asia 
Minor belong to the same group of nations, whether called Hattians (acc. to FICK) or Hittites 
(acc. t0 KANNENGIESSER) or Caucasians (acc. to BORK), — which spread westwards to the Greek 
islands and the continent of Europe, and eastwards to Armenia and the confines of Media 
and Elam. 
The Hittite name elements traced by me will be found in List II, 3, in so far as they 
are contained in the names of List I. But for the sake of lucidity, an additional list is given 
below, in which are included the elements also of some personal names (and some place names) 
which are not included in List L The Hittite name elements are printed in fat-faced type, those 
of Asia Minor in the usual type; the mark * indicates such forms as have not been met with 
in original inscriptions from Asia Minor, but are derived from Greek name-forms which, in some 
cases, are added in Greek characters. The small letters hekmtnab attached to the Hittite name 
elements mean: ^ that the respective names occur in Boghazkói texts, * in Cappadocian tablets, 
k in Kerkuk tablets, = in Mitannian and Tell el Amarna texts, tin texts from Ta'annek, " in 
documents from Nippur, 2 in Assyrian documents (chiefly from the 9'^ to 7 centuries) and P in 
early Babylonian texts. The probable meaning of the elements is also given in paranthesis. 
aba^ — aba, apa; ada® — ada; aga, aha, see aka; ahli(b)*" — kla* (perhaps = qui); 
akahckma, ah(hja‘, agi^', aka-b*, aga-b" (cf. Mit. 44 “to bring") — aka (aka, «xe, ayo); akpar^ 
I) BORK notices in passing that names from Asia Minor, not preserved in cuneiform characters, show a sur- 
prising number of points of agreement with Mitannian names, Memnon, V (1911), p. 46 b. 
2) GusTAVS, Z. c., has taken a fundamentelly correct course also in trying to discover grammatical forms of 
Mitannian verbs in Mitannien names. Many of his ideas, however, carry little conviction. He is entirely mistaken in 
the suggestion on col. 303 f., as the name occurring VS, I, 108,2 is not Aas-sa-ga but Bi-ir-ga-sa-ta. One should also 
read Z'-haó-ienmi for Ta-kil-Senni. 
T. XLIIT. 
