>>In Thracian bolinthos, "aurochs", there is -inthos, but it hardly can
>>be some kind of participial suffix.
Piotr's response:
>Etruscan surely exists, but I fail to see why we have to explain Greek
>toponyms in terms of Etruscan if there are other possibilities.
I'm not seeing a reasonable IE etymology here. Merely a connection
with a suffix that equally exists in Etruscan. Come to think of it, I could
be diabolical and suggest a completely Etruscoid etymology, *pul-in-tH-,
derived from *pul- "to be bright" (hence /pulumcHva/ "stars"). There,
now the ENTIRE word is analyzable in Tyrrhenian, a non-IE language
group... >:)
= gLeN
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