Re: Finnish KASKA

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
>
> > ===========
> > *den day, Tin diety associated with the day
> > *deiw god, heaven , Tivr moon
> > ==========
> > A loanword ?
> > Why should #t?- prefix
> > exist in ETruscan
> > A
> > =========
>
> It might have its origin in Nostratic.
>
> =================
>
> I will accept #t?- in Etruscan
> when you have provided
> examples in Basque.

This makes no sense. Even if Basque and Etruscan are related (and
there's no reason to think that they are) this makes no sense.

> And inherited t? cannot be d-
> This is the PIE reflex.
>
> Inherited t? > -l-
> Cf. al "to give"
>
> Arnaud

The root appears to be alp(H) which is perhaps cognate with *leip (to
desire) if the /i/ was lost to syncope. The semantics are a bit weak
here.