Re: [tied] Is Lars a Etruscan name?

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From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Is Lars a Etruscan name?



> [Glen:] 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.
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> [Miguel:] I rather suppose it's a reference to Laris (> Lars).

<Lars> is the Latinised version of Etruscan <Larth> or <Lart>. In Latin, it was declined as either <Lars>/<Laris> or <Lars>/<Lartis> (<ad Lartem Porsenam>). Some grammarians seem to have believed that <Lar-> was more proper as a term of honorary address and <Lart-> as an Etruscan praenomen, but the distinction is probably artificial.

Piotr