Re[2]: [tied] PIE anthroponyms and Animals

At 7:18:10 PM on Sunday, October 17, 2004,
enlil@... wrote:

> Joao:
>> The only IE language I couldn't find this compounds was
>> Latin. Why? Etruscan influence?

> I wouldn't know what the word for "horse" is in Etruscan.
> I don't think it's been identified yet.

I think that Joao meant that Latin doesn't seem to have the
dithematic personal names otherwise rather characteristic of
IE languages. The Roman naming system does stand out as
unusual, and it did borrow a good many gentilicia, at least,
from the Etruscans.

Brian