Re: [SPAM] Re: [tied] Re: Salt, s-/h-

On 2008-10-09 01:16, Rick McCallister wrote:

> Let me risk a pie in the face on this one. The *turs- forms are often
> related to a word for "tower.". What is the chance they could be a
> bastardization of *etrus- > *trus- > *turs- ?

Why the metathesis? (Etruscan speakers had no particular problems with
/tr-/). Why should the initial vowel heve been lost? Is there any
evidence of *tru:s- anywhere? (the vowel should have been long at this
stage, as it was in <etru:s->). The connection between
Turs-ko-/Turs-e:no- and Gk. túrsis 'tower' is of course highly
speculative, but at least makes sense formally.

Piotr