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

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:01:48 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>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>.

I once had the idea that it might be interpreted as 'this
(eca) image (s'ren) shows (tva) how (ichnac) Hercules
(hercle) became ((a)s-ce) Juno's (unial) adoptive son
(clan-thr(a))'. I can't prove it, of course.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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