Re: OT: What language is "Hattusas"?

Stephen Mulraney wrote:

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> On 9/5/05, *Andreas Johansson* <andjo@free.fr <mailto:andjo@...>>
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>     The question came up on a gaming forum, and I thought someone
>     here'd know; from
>     which language is the name of the Hettite capital, Hattusas?
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>                                                             Andreas
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> ISTR recall that the city was called "Hattus" in *Hattic*, and that
> "Hattus^as^" was
> what the Hittites later called it by way of Hittitifying it (OR
> IEfying? Was Hattic non-IE?
> I think so.)

Indeed.  '-as' looks like a masculine nominative ending to me.  Cognate
to Latin '-us', Greek '-os', Gothic '-az', Lithuanian '-as', etc.