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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
> Torsten:
> > the -yo is *h2ay-w- "life(time), era", a loanword in IE (cf.
> > Etruscan <avil>, gen. avil-s, typical funeral inscription:
>
> The same word is also attested in Lemnian which shows that it is
> a pan-Tyrrhenian term.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Op.html
The Lemnian loss is there too. Actually, it's your idea, I forgot to
credit you for it
>Since IE well predates Etruscan, a loan into
> IE is completely impossible.
>
A loan from Tyrrhenian, you mean. I meant just a loan from wherever,
the word occurs in IE, "Tyrrhenian" and Semitic, and is probably
ultimately derived (via whatever loan route) from the "across the
river, life, death, grow etc" word.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Opr.html
I suspect the *ayw- word is some early religious terminus technicus,
meaning approximately "this earthly existence", "this secular life"
or the like.
BTW I should have written "aetatis suae", nor "suis" [brrr - shudder].
Torsten