†irow

Several scholars (Ray 1982b:184; Melchert apud Adiego 1995a:23; Hajnal 1995b:27 n. 38) saw a Carian name in Irow of the Egyptian Carian inscriptions E.Me 14, E.Me 16, and E.Me 27 (here as gen. sg. Irowś). Melchert compared it to Hittite arāwa- ‘free’ (on the formal problems of this proposal see Adiego 1995a:23f.) and following him Hajnal claimed that this is (“wohl”) a compound “etwa */Ii̯a-oróu̯o-/ *“durch die Göttin [sic] Ii̯a frei”?”. However, as Vittmann 2001a:45 demonstrated (and followed by Adiego 2007a:272f., 369, Adiego 2010b:167–169), we are dealing with the Egyptian name J.r=w (cf. already Ray 1994a:202).

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