Pelasgians = Etruscans

For Rex and Dennis

From the same site as my last post

According to Herodotos, the pre-Greek inhabitants of the island of
Lemnos island were Pelasgians while, according to Thucydides, they were
Tyrrhenians. In the Greek sources, the name "Tyrrhenoi" was used both
for the Etruscans who lived in Middle Italy (in the area from river
Macra to river Tiberis) as well as for the Pelasgian inhabitants of the
Greek peninsula of Akte, i.e. the founders of the city of Athens who
were expelled and moved to Lenmos.

Some scholars assume that Lemnic and Etruscan are genetically or at
least typologically related. As a matter of fact, the language of the
inscription on this stele shows some morphologic and semantic
similarity with Etruscan. This is particularly evident in the numerals
and formulas indicating the deceased person's age: compare the Lemnic
expression sialxveis avis "aged 40", as it appears on the stele, with
the Etruscan expression avils maxs shealxlsc "aged 45".

Regards

John