Re: [TIED] Uralic-Etruscan links?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 2495
Date: 2000-05-23

 
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From: Glen Gordon
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: [TIED] Uralic-Etruscan links?

Glen wrote:
 
Russian /eto/ is ultimately relatable to Etruscan /ita/ at the IndoTyrrhenian stage.
Not directly, by any stretch of the imagination. Eto doesn't go beyond Proto-Slavic, being an East Slavic compound demonstrative with *to (< *to(d)) as the second element. It is related to Polish/OCSl to, Skt. tat, Greek to, English that. In Etruscan you could have a parallel formation (i-ta), in which case the correspondence would boil down to ta : to, involving the most common consonant on this planet.
 
Piotr