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cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> The majority opinion is that it isn't, and only a handful of
linguists side with V. Georgiev, who regards Etruscan as an Anatolian
dialect closely related to Lydian. A more popular view is that
Etruscan and the apparently related Rhaetic and Lemnian languages
form a small family (sometimes referred to as "Tyrrhenian") that
could be a "sister" of Indo-European in a more encompassing family
tree.
>
> Piotr
>
I have a question here regarding Etruscan/Lemnian:
Is ON thursa "troll" related to the "tyrsenoi"? Phonetically, it
seems to fit. Other "minor supernatural beings" have been
tentatively´identified with pre-IE peoples.
As is well-known, there is number of place-names
in Greece, ending in -inthos, -unthos, -ssos, which are
considered Pre-Greek, possibly Anatolian. Subtract ending
and we get -inth-, -unth-, -ss-.
Certain place names in Denmark,
mostly of islands and peninsulas, are
considered pre-IE, at least pre-Germanic.
Old Name Present Name
Lavind Langeland
Borgund Born-holm
Ekund Jegind-ø
Selund Sjælland (Zealand)
Thund Thun-ø
Sams Sams-ø
Mors id.
Mols id.
Als id.
So we have here endings -ind, -und, -s. Coincidence?
Amber has been found in Bronze Age shipwrecks in the Mediterranean,
so you can't argue that the two places were isolated from each other.
Is there some weird connection?
Regards
Torsten Pedersen