From: Rick McCallister
Message: 54397
Date: 2008-03-01
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> > I will restate what I have previously written.
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> > PIE *d is Basque and Etruscan l :
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> > To eat *H1ed :
> > Basque Hel Hal
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> That can't be right because of
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> You're jumping to the conclusion
> a little bit too fast.
> Orthodox PIE *d has to be split in two :
> *d and *t
> Now,
> I tend to think that the Etruscan alphabet
> *cannot* be inherited *thru* Greek
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> A major reason is Etruscan has
> a extra letter between n and p
> as in Hebrew (ts?)
> that Greek does not have
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> This is why I think
> ETruscan is from Phoenician
> with no intermediary
> and the value is Semitic
> So that theta is t? (t?ot)
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> to sit
> PIE *sed
> Etr satH = sat?
>
> heaven, moon
>
> PIE *deiw
> Etr tivr
>
> => Loanword ?
>
> to build
> PIE dem
> Etr t(H)am
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> > Number ten *dek
> > Etruscan alkh
>
> I agree that Etr alcH is ten, and further that Etr
> sar (usually
> translated as 10) is something else, possibly 12
> (plural of sa, 6).
> However, I'd reconstruct the number as *atl'&k (tl'
> is an ejective
> lateral affricate).
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> I think *dek = l_x
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> Another example is
> hupe "lying"
> = Latin cub-are
>
> Now
> the question is not just
> grabbing for words.
> The changes must account for the system.
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> Unvoiced *k = x
> ***AND***
> Voiced *b = p
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> The whole logic of correspondences
> counts **more**
> than individual "grabbings".
> It shows that there was a proto-system
> and this system proceeded to a new stage
> thru logical processes
> that accounts for all phonetic series.
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> Arnaud
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