The Maryannu were a caste of
chariot-mounted hereditary
warriornobility that existed in many of the societies of the
Ancient Near East during the
Bronze Age. Maryannu is a Hurrianized
Indo-Aryan word, formed by adding
Hurrian suffix -nni to Indo-Aryan root márya, meaning "(young) man"[1] or a "young warrior".[2] Philologist
Martin West suggested that the name Meriones, a character in Homeric epic, is "identical" to maryannu.[3] Thus, Mērionēs would be the
Homeric Greek version of the term, reflected in pre-
Mycenaean poetic verse as Mārionās.[4]
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