Summary
The root ṭ-w-r names the mountain: Aramaic ܛܘܪܐ ṭūrā "the mountain," Hebrew ṣūr "rock," and Quranic Arabic الطُّور (itself plausibly an Aramaic loan within Arabic — a useful double layering). The Troy dossier's node م-١ reads Τροίη/Τροία (Hittite Taruiša) on this root — grade ج — as a topographic description: the citadel on the mound (Hisarlik), named for its situation, not its lineage. (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)
Attested Forms
| Language | Form | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Aramaic | ṭūrā (ܛܘܪܐ) | mountain |
| Hebrew | ṣūr | rock |
| Arabic | aṭ-Ṭūr | the Mount (Sinai) |
| Hittite (proposed) | Taruiša | Troy (grade ج) |
| Greek (proposed) | Τροίη / Τρώς | Troy / eponymous ancestor Tros |
Sound Changes
- ṭ (emphatic) → plain t in Greek transmission (standard de-emphaticization)
- Hittite Taruiša preserves the t-r-w skeleton (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)
- The ṭ/ṣ correspondence between Aramaic ṭūrā and Hebrew ṣūr is a regular inner-Semitic sound law
Entities Using This Root
Semantic Evolution
Common noun for height/rock → sacralized mountain (aṭ-Ṭūr as the Mount) → toponym for a citadel-on-a-height. The reading treats Troy's name as landscape vocabulary, parallel to how Sacred Mountain pages track the mountain as axis mundi across cultures. (المصدر: raw/greek/طروادة_عقد_جذور.md)