Re: [tied] Re: The Philistines

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 19754
Date: 2003-03-13

I just remembered something and I almost had a k'niption walking
down a public street. Massimo in his "The Etruscans" book-thingie
mentions *truna or *tHruna, which I suppose is an assumed
Etruscan word based on that glossed by Hesykhios, /drouna/.
The word apparently means "power".

Upon thinking about it, if a Late Tyrrhenian (as spoken c.1500
BCE, let's say) *tresena "Trojan" becomes Etruscan /ras'na/
and if I'm right about *browa "brother" becoming /ruva/, then
I would rather expect Etruscan *runa, from LTyrr *truna <
*taru-na "of or relating to Taru; powerful".


- gLeN


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