From: Rick McCallister
Message: 60740
Date: 2008-10-09
> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>Check out the Bonfantis book on the Etruscan language
> Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [tied] Re: Salt, s-/h-
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 12:13 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister"
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> >> =============
> >> The form tursk may be the name Etruscans adopted
> for
> >> themselves from their
> >> neighbours.
> >> lost of initial e : because Etruscan has stress on
> initial,
> >> the e must be
> >> discarded to stress tursk on the first.
> >> metathesis : because out of etrurousk, variants
> like
> >> etrursk > etursk have
> >> existed.
> >> It may not be a metathesis but a different
> simplification
> >> of -uru:-
> >> short u : because Etruscan had no long vowel.
> >>
> >> I'm very sceptical about the idea of rejecting
> any
> >> connection between etrusk
> >> and tursk.
> >> It seems impossible. Toscana and Etruria are more
> or less
> >> the same place, or
> >> not ?
> >>
> >> Arnaud
> >> ============
> > I'm neutral on the idea but want to hear what
> people think.
> > The Etruscans, BTW, called themselves Rasenna >
> later Rasna.
> > And some people go togreat lengths to shoehorn this
> into the other forms
> > as well.
> >
> ===========
> Some people do not really accept that Rasenna refers to
> Etruscans.
> Maybe a citation with translation might help make up
> one's mind about this.
> Arnaud
> ==========