Re: [tied] Celtic *p > zero // IndoTyr *p > Tyr *f ??

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From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Celtic *p > zero // IndoTyr *p > Tyr *f ??
> Why *Vulca: with an asterisk? Are you refering to the very Etruscan city
of
> Vulci? Translating "(Lord) of Vulci" in Etruscan would indeed bring us to
> /Velcha-n-s/ with the -n(a) ending used for conveying a genitive sense and
> the nominative /-s/ seen in all Tyrrhenian languages (Etruscan, Lemnian
and
> Rhaetic). According to McCallister's site, there is also Rhaetic
/Velxanu/.
>
*Vulca because there's no vulca in known Latin vocabulary. I'm not refering
to Vulci.
Lord of Vulci would be *Vulcinus, would'n it?