Grzegorz:
> Interesting that Etruscan Uni = Latin Ju:no:,
> Etruscan Ani = Latin Ja:nus. If Latin terms were
> just taken from Etruscan, j- can be a prothetic
> vowel or it can reflect a feature of the etruscan
> pronunciation which is not seen in spelling.
No. I plead Logic again: The Etruscans borrowed these
names from the Romans. Obviously because the j- is
missing in Etruscan and it's simpler to reason that
this is due to borrowing. Your claim is wrought with
far more assumptions. Bad :(
Second of all, if you actually _looked_ at Etruscan
you'd notice the odd absence of words starting with
y-. That should be a *big* hint that the above idea
you stated is off the mark.
As added testimony to the Tyrrhenian nature of the
Minoan language, please also note that Minoan too
seems to lack *y-. This is based on the observable
interchange between initial YA- and A- in a repeated
name "Assaram". This tells me that Proto-Tyrrhenian
itself completely lacked words with initial *y-
altogether and helps us understand more accurately
how Tyrrhenian evolved away from IndoTyrrhenian.
= gLeN
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