Fanum (was: Origin of Demeter)

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

> The whole libation formula would follow this idea with
> Etruscan correlations in parentheses and the intended Minoan
> pronunciation as follows:
>
> Atai tewa-ye, Assaram-e, una kanasi.
> To mother (ati) earth, to Assaram, a libation (un) given (cena),
>
> Ipinam-na sirute.
> For the holy one (fanum), [it] is done (Uni-as s'ela-ce).

This challenges the etymology Latin _fa:num_ 'sanctuary' < *fasnom
f. *dHe:s, *dH&s 'root used in religious terms' (Pokorny root
#409). There are Italic cognates Oscan _fi/i/snam_ (I'm not sure
what the slashes in on-line Pokorny mean here) 'temple' and the
Umbrian expression _fesnafe_ translated into Latin as 'in fanum'.

Richard.