ais

--- In cybalist@..., erobert52@... wrote:

> In a message dated 10/10/02 14:48:43 GMT Daylight Time,
> tgpedersen@... writes:
>
>
> > > I certainly think Etruscan had
> > > nasalised vowels which were often not represented in writing

(Etr.

> > > acila > Lat. ancilla).
> >
> > As in Etr. ais, aisar "god", "gods"? (aI~, nasal glide, as in

French

> > Canadian or North West Fyn (han "he" > haI~)? That's getting a

lot

> > closer to Gothic *ansuz etc. This might interest Glen.
> >
>
> That doesn't mean I think there's a nasal present in Etr. ais. In

fact I

> don't think there is. Unlike acila > ancilla, ais always gets

borrowed

> into Italic LL as ais- or es-.
>
> Ed.

Examples? I thought 'ais' was known in Latin only as a gloss?

Torsten