Editing Hurrian language (section)

=====Suffixaufnahme=====
One prominent feature of Hurrian is the phenomenon of [[Suffixaufnahme]], or suffix absorption, which it shares with Urartian and the geographically proximate [[Kartvelian languages]]. In this process, the dependent modifiers of a noun share the noun's case suffixes. Between the suffix of the dependent noun and the case ending comes the article, which agrees with the referent in number, for example, with an adjective:

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|ḫurwoḫḫeneš ōmīnneš
|ḫurw-oḫḫe-ne-š ōmīn-ne-š
|Hurrian-ADJ-ART.SG-ERG.SG land-ADJ-ART.SG-ERG.SG
|"the Hurrian land"
}}

Suffixaufnahme also occurs with other modifiers, such as a noun in the genitive modifying another noun, in which case the following nouns takes a possessive pronoun.

{{interlinear|number=ex:|glossing2=no|glossing3=yes
|šēniffufenefe ōmīnīfe
|šēn-iffu-fe-ne-fe ōmīni-i-fe
|brother-my-GEN.SG-ART.SG-GEN.SG land-his-GEN.SG
|"of the land of my brother" (lit, "of my brother his land")
}}

The phenomenon is also found when the head noun is in the locative, instrumental or equative. In the absolutive singular, Suffixaufnahme would be meaningless, as the case and number are unmarked. When more than two genitives occur, they are merged, so Suffixaufnahme only occurs on the innermost genitive, as in the following example:

{{interlinear|number=ex:|glossing2=no|glossing3=yes
|ōmīni Mizrinefenefe efrīfe aštīnna
|ōmīni Mizri-ne-fe-ne-fe efri-i-fe ašti-i{{=}}nna
|country Egypt-ART.SG-GEN.SG-ART.SG-GEN.SG ruler-its-GEN.SG lady-his{{=}}she
|"she is the lady of the ruler of the country Egypt"
}}