Re: [tied] Backward Etruscan

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From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Backward Etruscan


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> >Maris - Ares, Maris related to Mavort-, but I dont know to explain.
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> Hmm. Strange. I don't know what Mavort- is supposed to be either and yet,
by
> a quick scan, the rest of the information appears to be kosher. Perhaps
this
> is merely an idle assumption on the part of the webauthor because of Vedic
> Marut-. Maybe Mavort- represents a loose preLatin reconstruction. If so,
> (s)he would have been kind enough to prefix it with an asterisk for the
> innocent masses. If this is truely a reconstruction, I could think of
> likelier ones like *Moruts instead. Yet again, I don't know what that's
> supposed to mean though. Marut- is supposed to have originally meant storm
> according to one site but then that doesn't jive with the fact that Mars
was
> originally a god pertaining to fertility and vegetation.

Mavort is cited in many Roman Mythology dictionaries as the older form of
Mars. There was attempts to link it with Marut, claiming a Marut/Mavrt, like
quattuor/quartus, but I don't believe in this connexion. Mavort <
*Mag-vort-? < mag "great"?


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> >Turan-Aphrodite, Turan cf. tyrannos "tyrant"
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> That smells of a folk etymology. I wouldn't place significance on that
> connection. It can't be from /tyrannos/.

I;m not saying that Turan < Greek tyrannos, but that the two words came from
a common "Mediterranean" basis meaning "queen or king". So, Turan could be
the "Queen".

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> - gLeN
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