Hurrian

Noun

𒅆𒄿𒂊 ‎(šiye, ši-i-e)

1. water

References

• C. Frevel, C. Nihan, Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World (2012): šiye; "Cf. Haas, Materia Magica, 142: šiya=na šeḥelli=ve=na" = water of purity, a common collocation in Hurrian texts.
• Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, Introduction to Hurrian:

  page 57: "še-ḥe-el-li-we_e-na-ša wu_u-du-uš ši-i-e-na-ša KBo V 2 ii 26-7"

  page 119: "Since šin-, šind-, and šiya- signify "two," "seven," and "water" respectively, the Hurrian is in some way a translation of the Hittite."

• The Indo-European Elements In Hurrian: "The spirantization of *[b] has evolved to the point of yielding an assimilation to *[j] with the preceding vowel -i-, as in <si-we> = <si-ye> ‘water’. [...] *[siwi] 103 ‘water, river’ EL šiye <ši-i-e>"