On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 01:03:54 +0000, Rob
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magwich78@...> wrote:
>> Okay, maybe I goofed on that one. Can you find -c before that
>> period of syncope? In addition, is there evidence of syncope
>> even before this syncope?
>
>Logic says that it *must* have had a vowel at first.
Depends on what the environment of the 'logic' is.
If you look at Etr. -c(h) "and" and PIE *-kWe "and", then it
makes sense to derive both from a common prototype *-kWV (or
something similar, perhaps *-ku or *-kua). Provided, of
course, that Etruscan and PIE are related.
On the other hand, if you look only at Etruscan, say at
-c(h) "and" and -ce (verbal preterite ending), then there is
no logic necessity to derive -c(h) from *-ce, unless you can
derive -ce from yet something else.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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