Re: [tied] Is Lars a Etruscan name?

So, Lars means "light, shiny", doesn't it ?

Joao SL

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


> On Thu, 08 May 2003 08:11:30 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
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> >From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
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> >Subject: Re: [tied] Is Lars a Etruscan name?
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> >> [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).
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> ><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.
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> OK. Apparently the Etruscan praenomen Laris was rendered in Latin as
> Lucius, as in the bilingual of Pesaro:
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> L. Cafatius L. f. Ste. haruspex fulguriator
> cafates lr. lr. net$vis trutnvt frontac
> (Lucius Cafatius Lucii filius (tribu) Stellatinae, haruspex,
> fulguriator)
> (Cafates Laris Larisal net$vis, trutnvt, frontac)
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