Miguel:
>>I wonder if this lautn can be compared to PIE *leudh- 'folk etc.'
>>(and may be even puia to *gWen-).
>
>I've see puia compared with Greek opuio: "I wed".
If the word were ancient, I'd be forced to reconstruct the equivalent
Tyrrhenian form as *paya/*puya and it would have to derive from IndoTyr
*baya/*beuya. Yet, I see nothing relatable to IndoEuropean... So I find
myself liking the idea that /puia/ is a Hellenic loanword. The idea that IE
*gW is equivalent to Etruscan /p/ is unfathomable to me. IE *ghW/*gW/*kW
equals Etr UNaspirated /c/ as far as I'm concerned.
- gLeN
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