Re: [tied] Backward Etruscan

--- In cybalist@..., erobert52@... wrote:

> [Thesan] may have a Caucasian connection. The usual translation is
> Aurora, dawn, morning. If we accept the analogy aurum/aurora, there
> is a remarkable similarity to the Nakh word for gold, deshi.

Where is Nakh spoken, and what sort of language is it?

Has any connection been found between Etruscan and the modern Caucasus
languages? The Egyptian inscription describing the Sea Peoples seems
to say that peoples including the Tursha invaded from Anatolia. Perhas
they were driven by a drought famine.

> Funnily enough, Theseus, or These in Etruscan, was searching for the
>*golden* fleece.

I thought that it was Iason and the Argonauts who were looking for the
Golden Freece.

> Most bizarrely Thalana/Thalna, which d'Aversa describes as the
> Etruscan deity present during 1. sexual intercourse and 2. birth, is
> reminiscent of Nakh d.aalan which means both 1. 'to enter' and 2.
> 'to arrive'.

Ditto in Greek: the name of the Greek goddess of childbirth
Eileithyia looks like one of the roots of the Greek heteroclite verb
{erkhomai, ei^mi, eleusomai, e:luthon, ele:lutha} = "go" (from IE root
H1-L-Dh ?), compare Latin {liber} = Greek {eleutheros} = "free".

--- Someone wrote:-

> ... the Etruscan name for Minotaurus: Thevrumines. Weren't you
> looking for a "backward" composition of Etruscan composite nouns?

I tend to use the terms "big-endian" for compounding in Greek or
German type order, e.g. a cowhouse is a house and not a cow, and
"little-endian" for the other order. (Those terms are usually used to
describe the order of bytes in a number in a computer, or the order of
the components of the part of an email address which is after the @ .)