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Mushki
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Etymology
From en akk Muški 𒆳𒈬𒍑𒆠 KURmu-uš-ki Muški Possibly identified with the Phrygians,Rostyslav Oreshko. The onager kings of Anatolia: Hartapus, Gordis, Muška and the steppe strand in early Phrygian culture. Kadmos, 2020, 59(1/2), pp.77-128. ffhal-03880045 but theorized by some to be a tribe of Proto-Armenian or Kartvelian origin.Petrosyan, Armen (2002), The Indo-European and Ancient Near Eastern Sources of the Armenian Epic. pp.140, 146 More at Mushki.
Cognate with hbo מֶשֶׁךְ Mešeḵ. Compare la Moschi.
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en historical An Iron Age people of Anatolia who appear in Assyrian sources.
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