XXXII KNuT TALLQVIST. 
Dr. BoRK! has shown that an % has disappeared in the Mitannian. He is confirmed 
in this by the fact that the Z, which occurs (conventionally preserved) in Lycian inscriptions, 
has nothing corresponding to it in Hittite names (cf. under the elements amba, ambar, anda, 
indi, ru) and is not even indicated in Grecian transcription of names from Asia Minor. 
The 4, which so frequently recurs in cuneiform Hittite names (and Mitannian words) 
I couple with #, 9 and g. These letters 7, £, g and g alternate in cuneiform rendering of Hittite 
names just as x, X and y alternate in Greek transcription of names from Asia Minor. This 
clearly appears from the different readings Tarku, Tarqu, Tarhu and Targa (cf. EL Turgu), in 
comparison with Lyc. Trqqü-, Gr. Tpoxo, Tapyv, Tpoyo, etc.; ""'Hia£Eu, Gr. Küwia; ”Kum- 
muhu, Koppaynvn, and so forth. It seems that the proximity of a sonoral, dental, labial or 
sibilant sound led to the sound-change # > A. 
It is not quite clear what relation s, * and z bear to each other in cuneiform rendering 
of Hittite names and to what sounds in Hittite-Mitannian they correspond. Dr. BORK has 
adopted £ for z in Mitannian. This suggestion seems to be confirmed by the fact that the 
sound, which corresponds to Lycian z, usually is rendered by $ (as Iran. &= Ba. 3) in Babylo- 
nian (bekmn) cuneiform rendering of Hittite names, by s in Assyrian writing, rarely by z. On 
the other hand the sound, which corresponds to s in names from Asia Minor, is generally 
represented in Babylonian cuneiform writing by 4, in Assyrian by s. 
I must here pass over several other interesting observations suggested by the Hittite 
personal names collected by me. I will only point out that also the cuneiform (and Biblical) 
geographical names, which have only been noticed cursorily in these pages, would be most deser- 
ving of thorough investigation. Such a study would certainly corroborate the above named 
conclusions and would give a surer clue to the geographical distribution of the Hittites than can 
be obtained from personal names. 
1) MVG, XIV, p. 80. 
T. XLIIL 
