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János Harmatta
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János Harmatta (2 October 1917 – 24 July 2004) was a Hungarian linguist.
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Assyrian sources preserved the Lullubean word kiurum ‘god’ which can be regarded as an adoption of PII *kura- (cf. OInd sura-, Avestan süra-), the Old Indian and Old Iranian correspondents of which were still applied to denote some gods in Vedic and Avestan times.
quoted in Varas and Dragonslayers: Rethinking the Indo-Iranian Expansion
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