Re: gen. -yo

--- In 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. Since IE well predates Etruscan, a loan into
> IE is completely impossible.
>

I seem to recall you related it also to a gloss in another
Mediterrraneam language. Was it Eteo-Cypriot?

Torsten