Re: [tied] Affects of immigrant communities in language change

--- In cybalist@..., "Joseph S Crary" <pva@...> wrote:

>
> Now this may be totally off target, because it seems to have

nothing

> to do with the Etruscans, but you may fine this interesting. Its

the

> names of the Sea People, from Egypt, that where associated with a
> Late Bronze Age mass migration that hit the eastern Mediterranean

in

> the late 13th and early 12th centuries.
>
> A-qi-ya-wa-sa/ A-qi-wa-sa/
> Rendered as Ekwesh or Achewash
> [Greece and Aegean (as Achaean)-Homeric ethnic name, Palestine]
>
> Danuna (D-y-n-yw-n)
> Rendered as Danaan
> [Argos (Danaus) and northwest Anatolia (Dardanaus)-Homeric ethnic
> name, Dan-Palestine]

Rivers Don, Donets, Dniepr, Dniestr; Danes; Danakil?
Jordanes mentions a campaign by the Goths (north of the Black Sea)
against pharao and the Egyptians

> Wasasa (W-s-s)
> Rendered as Washesh or Wassos
> [Western Anatolia-Lydian-Homeric ethnic name, Asher-Palestine]
>
> Tjikar (T-k-k[-r])
> Rendered as Tjekker or Teukori
> [Northwestern Anatolia Homeric ethnic name (Teuthrians or

Teukrians)

> and Dor-Palestine]

Snorri's Turks.

>
> Sa-k(a)-ru-su (s'-r'-rw-s')
> Rendered as Sheklesh or Siekli
> [Palestine, Sicily-Italy]

Siculi (on Sicily)

>
> Ta-ru-sa (Tw-rw-s'/ Tw-ry-s')
> Rendered as Tursha, Tyrsha, or Ta-rasna (prefix ta and see Rw-ku
> below)[North west Anatolia-Homeric ethnic name, Palestine, Umbria-
> Italy]

*Turs- > Tyrrh-(enian), E-trur-, Troy?
Lat. turris (tower)? (wanderwort)
Latin per-amp-truare, of what they did in a procession on a certain
day (to commemorate their arrival from Troy?). It was a book of
Etruscan I read ten years ago (Bonfante? Pallotino?)

>
> Sa-ra-d-n/ Sa-ar-di-na (S'-r'd-n)
> Rendered as Shardin
> [Sardis-Lydian western Anatolia, Akko-Palestine, Sardinia-Italy]
>
> Pe-ra-sa-ta/ Peleset (Pw-r-s-ty)
> Rendered as Pelesti
> [Pelesgi-Aegean, Philistine-Palestine,
> Tuscany-Italy]
>
> Rw-ku (Rw-kw)
> Rendered as Rawkaw
> [western Anatolia-Lydian (Luwian-Razawa also formerly translated as
> Arzawa), Palestine, Rasna or Rasenna-Italy (the name the Etruscan
> called themselves)]
>
>
> I'm not sure if this would hold up, however it suggests that this
> is a rather complex period and that a number of sea born

populations

> from the Aegean and western Anatolia fan out in a huge migration
> throughout the eastern and middle Mediterranean in the late stage

of

> LB.
>
> This information gives your theory a basis in the Aegean and

western

> Anatolia. Still is there any evidence from the southern or western
> Balkans?
>
>
> JS Crary