Re: etruscan, Lydian and Greek inscriptions

I deciphered Etruscan writing and can read and understand.
I also deciphered Lydian and Greek inscription with respect
to Etruscan alphabet and language.
Please visit http://home.att.net/~oko/home.htm
where I posted about stated information

John



--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Torsten Pedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>

wrote:

> > The majority opinion is that it isn't, and only a handful of
> linguists side with V. Georgiev, who regards Etruscan as an

Anatolian

> dialect closely related to Lydian. A more popular view is that
> Etruscan and the apparently related Rhaetic and Lemnian languages
> form a small family (sometimes referred to as "Tyrrhenian") that
> could be a "sister" of Indo-European in a more encompassing family
> tree.
> >
> > Piotr
> >
>
> I have a question here regarding Etruscan/Lemnian:
>
> Is ON thursa "troll" related to the "tyrsenoi"? Phonetically, it
> seems to fit. Other "minor supernatural beings" have been
> tentatively´identified with pre-IE peoples.
>
>
>
> As is well-known, there is number of place-names
> in Greece, ending in -inthos, -unthos, -ssos, which are
> considered Pre-Greek, possibly Anatolian. Subtract ending
> and we get -inth-, -unth-, -ss-.
>
> Certain place names in Denmark,
> mostly of islands and peninsulas, are
> considered pre-IE, at least pre-Germanic.
>
> Old Name Present Name
>
> Lavind Langeland
>
> Borgund Born-holm
> Ekund Jegind-ø
> Selund Sjælland (Zealand)
> Thund Thun-ø
>
> Sams Sams-ø
> Mors id.
> Mols id.
> Als id.
>
> So we have here endings -ind, -und, -s. Coincidence?
>
> Amber has been found in Bronze Age shipwrecks in the

Mediterranean,

> so you can't argue that the two places were isolated from each

other.

> Is there some weird connection?
>
> Regards
> Torsten Pedersen