Re: [tied] Tyrhennian affiliation

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

> Who said they were related?

Sorry, you seemed to be suggesting that.

> It can come from another monophonic morpheme.

That is true. My point is that its ultimate source, after semantic
shifts, reanalysis, etc. are taken into account, is a stand-alone
word which in all likelihood had at least one vowel.

> No, that's not it. Final -e is also dropped in nouns:
> *methlume > methlum (G. methlumes(')).

All right. What then caused the final /e/ to be preserved in -ce?

I'm thinking about starting a Yahoo! Group about the Etruscan
language, so we can talk about all of this there or in Nostratic-L.

- Rob