Re: Tages the "Seer" ?

--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> Mr Caws:
> > I have heard Tarchies as an alternative(Connected with the
> >personal name Tarxi?) I do think it is odd that we haven't seen

this

> >name more often, though.
>
> Well, I have a thought about that etymology then. How

about /tarchi/ and IE

> *derk^- "to see". Tages is a "seer" of the future afterall and the

sound

> correspondances are perfectly regular (/t/ = *d and /ch/ = *k) as I

know of

> them. So, if Etruscan /tarch-/ means "to see (into the future)",

then

> /tarch-i/ must surely have meant "seer" or "prophet".
>
> - gLeN

I agree. Upon further investigation, I found tarxi as perception, and
tarxi salvi as starwatcher. Also, a similar word Tarkh was listed as
to percieve, grasp, or grab. This site potentially connected this to
Hittite "Tarh", to conquer, and Tarhunt, the god of conquest and
storms. This might be related to Tarxun/Tarchon, the discoverer of
Tarchies/Tages.
For any who are interersted, the site is
www.muw.edu/~rmccalli/EtruscanTA.html