Re: ais

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:39:21 EDT, erobert52@... wrote:
>
> >In a message dated 12/10/02 13:51:08 GMT Daylight Time,
> >tgpedersen@... writes:
> >
> >
> >> > 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?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I meant the following borrowings:
> >Umbrian esono- "divine, sacred, sacrifice"
> >Oscan aisusis "sacrifices"
> >Marrucian aisos "god"
> >Paelignian aisis "god", and
> >Voscian esaristrom "sacrifice".
> >
> >(Miguel Carrasquer Vidal, quoted in Rick Mc Callister's "Etruscan

Glossary").

>
> Certainly a secondary source. I don't recall right now where this

list of words

> comes from.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

I suppose I could still wriggle my way out of that one by claiming
that ancilla was an early, ais- a late loan (after loss of that
nasalisation in Etruscan).

Torsten