Marco:
> I perfectly agree about your discussion of Etruscan dice.
> Naturally I don't believe in Indo-Tyrrhenian, and I think a NEC
> etymology for /huth/ is far simpler.
Of course you know that we will be warring back and forth in favour
of our own sides of the dice <;) Unfortunately I have to run right
now and have been working like a dog this week but I've been armoring
myself with more information and newfound thoughts on Etruscan so
hopefully in the next few days I can look at my 67 messages (!) and
then respond soon. I've written down some glaring inconsistencies
in Larissa Bonfante's book and some other taken-for-granted words that
deserve our suspicion. One such root is /tes-/ which is taken for
"to care for". This must be wrong because of what Mayani connects it
with, but I have to go into more detail. So gotta go for now :(
= gLeN