[tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> >>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... >:)

Perhaps an Etruscan word *pulinth really existed, but with the
meaning of "brightness". We cannot prove it until we find it in an
inscription. But a comparison with Thracian makes no sense at all.

Marco

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