> the -yo is *h2ay-w- "life(time), era", a loanword in IE (cf.
> Etruscan <avil>, gen. avil-s, typical funeral inscription:
The same word is also attested in Lemnian which shows that it is
a pan-Tyrrhenian term. Since IE well predates Etruscan, a loan into
IE is completely impossible.
= gLeN
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