*orou

Reconstructed from a personal name preserved on probably Carian coins of unknown provenance from the second half of the 5^th c. BC (see the discussion with refs. in Konuk 2007a:490f., Konuk 2007b).

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nom. sg.

orou

M51, M52

The attestations follow Konuk 2007a:490, Konuk 2007b:105f., checked against the photographs in Adiego 2007a:Pl. 4 and Konuk 2007b:104. See Konuk 2007a:490f., Konuk 2007b that these signs should be read in Carian (accepted also by Schürr 2010c:196 and Schürr in Kunnert & Schürr & Zingg 2010a:178).

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Konuk 2007a:491, Konuk 2007b:108f. explained the legend of these coins as the name of a Carian dynast and argued that the spelling customs of the Carian coins imply that we are dealing with the full name. Also Schürr 2010c:196 and Schürr in Kunnert & Schürr & Zingg 2010a:178 saw a personal name in it and connected it to Lycian arawa- ‘freedom’ (see s.v.), Hittite arāwa- ‘free’, and the “Göttin Ερευα = Ἐλευθερά” of Stephan of Byzantium (who is, strictly speaking, not called goddess by him and not identified with Ἐλευθερά but with her daughter, Billerbeck & Zubler 2011a:156). Analyzable Carian coins indeed show either the name of a dynast or the name of a city (see the collection of Konuk 2007a). Lacking a fitting toponym (Zgusta 1984a), a personal name is more probable and Hittite arāwa- ‘free’ is well attested in Hittite names in Old Assyrian transmission (see most recently Kloekhorst 2019b:116f.). Accordingly, the word means ‘free’.

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Rejected derivatives:

1. †irow
2. Torouo