From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 9725
Date: 2001-09-24
> Cort:Perhaps this is relevant:
> > 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 *Tarwésena ("People of *Tarwése"). *Tarwése 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...
>