Miguel:
>According to Cypriot spelling conventions, Aristonos Artowaksoko:s (?)
>is surely the (Greek) nominative. And that's what <kretulos> also
>looks like.
Erh, no, not at all. The name is already written on the Greek side and,
yes, it is in the nominative -- but it doesn't look like that. The name is
in the genitive in EteoCypriot because the name is the object of umesi
(U-MI-E-SA-I) which takes a genitive object. Both names, as is typical
in Tyrrhenian inflection, take the genitive ending /-ose/.
And please note, that the ending is /-ose/, not *-se (cf. written: A-RA-
TO-WA-NA-KA-SO-KO-O-SE, note the extra -O- just so that silly people
like you _don't_ read /-se/). The ending is consistently written as /-ose/
even in /keretul-ose/ which we know is in the genitive because of the
meaning of Greek /eupatriden/ "of good birth".
Speaking of which, /kretulos/ is not a Greek word. It _is_ in Etruscan.
Your little theory doesn't work at all.
- gLeN
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