Re: [tied] Etymology of Rome

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

> I guess that Rome as place name is derived from hydronym, i.e. from
> river name Ruma, later river Tiber

'river name Ruma' ? Where you find it 'attested' with this name?

Tiberis fl. (Ptol., Plin., Mel., Liv., etc.)
Thybris fl. (Plin., Verg.)
Albula fl. (Liv., Plin.)

So the oldest name of the river was Albula

Ruma was Only the Estruscan spelling for Rome

> (u > o was a characteristic change
> of Etruscan place names in Latin

Examples?

> Etruscan was an IE language as was
> proved by Bekees in "The Origin of Etruscans", see file section on
> Cybalist). It is similar with river name Struma, all from suffixed
> form of *sreu- 'to flow': Germanic *straumaz 'stream': Greek

rhein 'to

> flow': Alb rrymë 'current, stream'.
>
> Konushevci

a) Etruscan an IE-language? Please post a list of at least 10
etruscan words with their PIE cognates....

b) PIE *sru-ma > Latin Roma ? 'Directly-from-PIE' or 'via
Etruscan'? :)

Marius