Капанцян Гр. Хурритские слова армянского языка. — Отдельный оттиск из «Известий» Академии Наук Армянской ССР, № 5, 1951 г.
Ереван : Издательство Академии Наук Армянской ССР, 1951.
28 с. Мягкий издательский переплет, обычный формат. Отдельный оттиск.
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Kapantsyan, Gr. Hurrian Words in the Armenian Language (Khurritskiye slova armyanskogo yazyka). — Separate offprint from "Izvestiya" (Bulletin) of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, No. 5, 1951.
Yerevan : Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR Publishing House, 1951.
28 pp. Softcover, standard format. Separate offprint.
This 1951 offprint is a rare and specialized linguistic study by the eminent Armenian scholar Grigor Kapantsyan, a pioneer in the research of the ancient ethno-cultural layers of the Armenian Highlands. While originally published in the Bulletin of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, this standalone issue was produced in a very limited run specifically for the academic community and the author's colleagues.
The work delves into the "Hurrian substrate"—the linguistic traces left by the Hurrians, a powerful Near Eastern people of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, within the later Armenian language. Kapantsyan identifies and analyzes specific lexical units, exploring how ancient Hurrian terms for agriculture, social structures, and everyday life were absorbed and preserved. This research was groundbreaking for its time, as it challenged established Indo-European theories by highlighting the deep, non-Indo-European roots that shaped the Armenian nation during its formative stages.
For specialists, this offprint is a vital source for understanding the pre-Urartian and Urartian history of Transcaucasia. It bridges the gap between Hurriology and Armenology, offering a rigorous phonetic and semantic analysis of a substrate that remains a subject of intense scholarly debate. As a separate offprint from the early 1950s, it is a significant bibliographical rarity and a testament to the mid-century flourishing of Caucasian historical linguistics.