Re: [tied] Backward Etruscan

From: Christopher Gwinn
Message: 6239
Date: 2001-02-28

> Dunno about clerar. Are you sure you don't mean /clenar/? The latter means
> "sons".

I likely just mispelled it, seeing that it is translating the Greek "Zeus'
Boys" Dioskouroi.

> Menrva looks like native Etruscan because of the typical -va suffix,
which
> might be used for a collective sense, but I'm not sure what it would mean.

I have seen some try to reconstruct a proto-form, *Menesua, relating it to
the moon and to menstruation.

- Chris Gwinn