At 11:33:26 PM on Wednesday, February 20, 2008, Patrick Ryan
wrote:
> Brian, people have been spatting over those dice for a
> long time. No Etruscan dictionary I know includes <thu>,
> 'one', though you may, of course, be right.
I've yet to run into anyone whom I considered likely to be
knowledgeable about Etruscan who *didn't* accept <thu(n)>
'1'; the real question, as I understood it, is whether <sa>
is '4' and <huth> is '6', or the reverse. Something that I
read in a snippet of the Bonfantes' book available through
Google Books suggested that there was some independent
evidence pointing towards <sa> being '4', but I've no
details.
Brian