Piotr:
>Why? Because you say so? Judging from the attested Thracian vocabulary,
>the language had a stop system with a fortis/lenis (rather than simply
>voiceless/voiced) contrast, which is why Greek loans often show <tH> for
>Thracian fortis /t/ and hesitate between <t> and <d> to represent
>Thracian lenis /d/.
Funny how that's the same stop system I propose for Tyrrhenian and which
is exhibited in Etruscan -- Just a thought out loud. However, I do receive
your skepticism for obsessive Pelasgian labelling. Still, it must be noted
that
similar endings _do_ exist in Tyrrhenian languages like Etruscan. Examples
such as /tes-intH/ for example, although perhaps better analyzed as three
morphemes /tes-in-tH/ since /-in-, -en-/ appears to be a productive verb
suffix on its own as well (eg. /cer-en/ < /cer/ "to make, to do"; /tr-in/ <
/tur/ "to give").
= gLeN
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