From: Glen Gordon
Message: 9918
Date: 2001-10-02
>Etr. <laut(u)n> means "family", and is generally considered to beBut how does this borrowing occur?
>borrowed from or cognate with IE *h1leudh-, as further evidenced by
>Etr. <lautni>, <lautna> "freedperson, <libertus>" [Lat. <liber> "free"
>is from this same root *h1leudh-].