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Let's compare that against the Hittite, which I transcribed slightly differently: ni b-xu rre-(w)-ri aꜥ [M]-ni-ib-xu-r u -ri-ya -aš This seems to line up very nicely! … The final -š is a Hittite nominative ending, so it can be disregarded, and the initial [M] is a silent determinative, saying that what follows is a male name. …

nu =us =si =kan widār arha da -hhun then=3PL.ACC=3SG.LOC=MOD water.ACC.PL away take-1.SG.PAST This isn't exclusive to Hittite; it's actually part of the Leipzig glossing conventions … It's just very prevalent in Hittite because Hittite uses a lot of enclitics—most sentences will have at least one, and four or five isn't unusual. …

The interpretation of Hittite /ts/ is still somewhat of an open question. First, Hittite cuneiform could have distinguished voiced and voiceless stops in many positions…but it didn't. … However, Hittite scribes were consistent (in a way Akkadian and Sumerian scribes never were) in distinguishing between at-ta and a-ta—that is, single vs double consonants. …

Kloekhorst's Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon proposes that /o/ and /u/ are separate phonemes in Hittite, but that the distinction doesn't appear in all environments: it's almost …

It's rare, but it does happen. For example, eš-er "they were" (be-3P.PRF) is normally written e-še-er, but can also be written e-eš-er, since there's a very transparent boundary between the verb and i …

I know Kloekhorst's ideas about Hittite phonology are generally controversial (to put it lightly), but Watkins does seem to agree with him in general here. … Kloekhorst's argument is, first, that Hittite had phonemic labiovelar stops. …

He cites as an example the Luvian pronoun zi- "this" from PIE *ḱis, cognate with Hittite ki-, Latin cis, OCS sь, English he, etc. …

In Akkadian the sign group a-a has been thought to stand for aya, but that is an improbable value in Hittite, since y was lost between like vowels with subsequent contraction. … double writing of the a must indicate two syllables, and the IE root ai- aidh- 'burn, shine' shows that the semivowel -y- must be assumed; it does not necessarily follow that intervocalic y persisted in Hittite …

For example, the Hittite word taru "wood, tree" can be written with a logogram and phonetic complement as ĜIŠ-ru. … So even here, the reading ĜIŠ-ru might be the better one, and that's what Hoffner takes in his translation of this text (in Hittite Myths, ed. Beckman: "but chops down evil men like trees"). …