Re: [tied] Is Lars a Etruscan name?

On Wed, 07 May 2003 12:29:11 +0000, Glen Gordon
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
>>I've read in a newspaper about Scandinavian name Lars
>>being of Etruscan origin. Is it true?
>
>Sounds like someone was thinking of "Larth", with a final aspirate dental
>stop, which is indeed an Etruscan name, although unrelated I'm pretty sure.

I rather suppose it's a reference to Laris (> Lars).

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