Re: [tied] PIE *udhr and Etruscan thra 'breast'

On 2006-01-22 00:08, Octavià Alexandre wrote:

>>From the Etruscan bronze mirror representing Hercules sucking June's
> nipple (TLE 399): eca sren tva ichnac hercle unial clan thra sce, we
> can infer Etruscan /thra/ 'breast'.
>
> This word has obvious cognates in Sanscrit /udhar/, Greek /outhar/ and
> Latin /uber/ 'breast', from PIE *udhr.

It has been interpreted as 'this image shows how Hercules _became_ the
son of Juno'. Uncertain as the translation is, there can be little doubt
that <þrasce> is really one word -- a verb in its preterite active
indicative form, to be divided morphologically as <þras-> plus <-ce>.

Piotr