Re: [tied] Tyrhennian affiliation

Miguel:

> Let's see: intervocalic: marunuchva, after resonant:
> pulumchva. No, that's not the pattern.

Good one. I was thinking /heramva/ but then that I guess is short
for /heramas'va/. Alright. Let's keep it to this then:

Tyrrhenian *x > EtruscoLemnian *kH, or *w intervocalically or when
following sibilant.

> What Adiego says, and I agree, is that the Etruscan animate
> plural marker -ra is *also* in origin a collective marker,
> not a "true" plural.

Well, even so, I can't see a relationship to anything else other than
IE *-es. I don't think there would be any firm reasons to claim
that it was a collective marker like /-cHva/. At least these
family names seem to show that indeed the plural was a collective
regardless of gender. I'll have to remember that one. However, the
same proof doesn't exist for /-r(a)/, does it?


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