Ishara is the Hittite word for "treaty, binding promise", also personified as a goddess of the oath. The word is attested as a loanword in the Assyrian Kultepe texts from the 19th century BC, and is as such the earliest attestation of a word of any Indo-European language. The Hittite language is the dead language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who once created an empire centered on ancient Hattusa (modern BoÄŸazköy) in north-central Anatolia (modern Turkey). ... A treaty is a binding agreement under international law concluded by subjects of international law, namely states and international organizations. ... A goddess is a female deity in contrast with a male deity known as a god. A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic (or gender neutral) deities. ... An oath (from Saxon eoth) is either a promise or a statement of fact calling upon something or someone that the oath maker considers sacred, usually a god, as a witness to the binding nature of the promise or the truth of the statement of fact. ... Kültepe is the modern Turkish name for an ancient city in central eastern Anatolia, which was also called Kârum Kanesh merchant-colony city of Kanes in Assyrian (rendered Karum Kaniş in Turkish). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects spoken by about three billion people, including most of the major language families of Europe and western Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ...

The name is from a PIE root *sh₂ei "to bind (also magically)", also in Greek himas "strap" and Old Norse / Old High German seil "rope". Possibly also cognate is soul, and Welsh Gwen-hwyfar (Irish Find-abair, from Proto-Celtic *vindo-siabraid "white phantom", from a meaning "enchanted" of the extended root *sh₂ei-bh-). A slice of strawberry-rhubarb pie à la mode A pie is a baked dish with a pastry shell that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredient. ... Look up Magic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Magic may mean: Magic (paranormal), influence through supernatural, mystical, or paranormal means Magic and religion, the relationship between paranormal magic and religion Magic (gaming), paranormal magic as used in games Magic (Harry Potter), paranormal magic in the Harry Potter series Magic (illusion... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... Old High German is the earliest recorded form of the modern German language, and was spoken from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century. ... The soul according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. ... Ginevra Ginny Molly Weasley (born August 11 1981)[1][2] is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series. ... Proto-Celtic, also called Common Celtic, is the putative ancestor of all the known Celtic languages. ...