Cort:
> It is interesting that Aphrodite/Venus was strongly allied with
>Troy and was the mother of Aeneas, isn't it? Could Troy also be
>named after Turan?
I don't think so. My own view now is that the name "Rasenna",
the name that the Etruscans called themselves, is in fact derived
from *Tarw�sena ("People of *Tarw�se"). *Tarw�se would be the
city of Troy. However, I like to fantasize that the name for Troy
itself means "of Taru", of the Hattic god of storm.
As for Turan, I feel that it derives from an earlier form *Xastora
and is ultimately, strangely enough, of IE origin (*xste:r "star").
Of course, I could be wrong...
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