Editing Hurrian language (section)

==Vocabulary==
The attested Hurrian lexicon is quite homogeneous, containing only a small number of [[loanwords]] (e.g. ''tuppi'' ('clay tablet'), ''Mizri'' ('Egypt'; cf. Aramaic/Hebrew ''[[Mizraim]]'', 'id.') both from [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]). The relative pronouns ''iya'' and ''iye'' may be a loan from the [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language of the Mitanni people who had lived in the region before the Hurrians; cf. [[Sanskrit]] ''ya''. Conversely, Hurrian gave many loan words to the nearby Akkadian dialects, for example ''hāpiru'' ('nomad') from the Hurrian ''hāpiri'' ('nomad'). There may also be Hurrian loanwords among the [[languages of the Caucasus]], but this cannot be verified, as there are no written records of Caucasian languages from the time of the Hurrians. The source language of similar sounding words is thus unconfirmable.