Re: [TIED] Uralic-Etruscan links?

> Glen wrote:
>
> Russian /eto/ is ultimately relatable to Etruscan /ita/ at the
>IndoTyrrhenian stage.
>
> Not directly, by any stretch of the imagination. Eto doesn't go beyond
>Proto-Slavic, being an East Slavic compound demonstrative with *to (<
>*to(d)) as the second element.

Yes, and?

>It is related to Polish/OCSl to, Skt. tat, Greek to, English that. In
> >Etruscan you could have a parallel formation (i-ta), in which case the
> >correspondence would boil down to ta : to, involving the most common
> >consonant on this planet.

We can then say that about the IE correspondances and throw them all away :P
In fact, I do suspect Etruscan /i-ta/ to be such a formation. I made sure to
say that they are _ultimately_ relatable, meaning that they are related but
directly or closely. But alas...

- gLeN


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