Etruscan phonetics

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho <jodan99@...>
wrote:

> Velchns = Vulcanus ? <*Welk- "to flame, to burn, to shine" cf. Sans.
> varcas-, Ossetic Kurdalaegon (<Kurd-arya-vargon), ON Völundr
>
> I think all Etruscan theonyms with s-endings are of Italic origin.
> Cf. Fufluns < *Populo:nos
> Velchans < *Velcanos
> Selvans < *Selvanos
> Sethlans < *Se:tlanos?
>

If the above examples are trustworthy, it may mean that we should re-
think conventional phonetic interpretation of Etruscan stops. Why in
borrowings /ch/ [kh?] (and not /c/ [k?]) renders [k], /f/ [f? or
bilabial fricative?] (and not /p/ [p?]) renders [p] etc. May be
Etruscan 'mutae' are not conventional voiceless? Or this reflexes
some kind of later 'shift'?

Sergei