Re: On the origin of the Etruscans

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ehlsmith" <ehlsmith@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > This doesn't look good for Maeonian being of the Etruscan family, as
> > Beekes wants it to be. ..............
>
> Beekes does not claim Maeonian belonged to the Etruscan family, he
> claims that Etruscan was a remnant language located in the same area
> of Anatolia as was Maeonian(later Lydian)before being displaced by
> Phrygian invasions.
>

Come to think of it, that would imply that in pre-classical times the
IE Lydians and proto-Etruscan Maeonians lived in the same state, Old
Maeonia, and in classical times, after the Etruscans left, they lived
in separate states, Lydia and Maeonia. That doesn't add up. The
problem is that Beekes doesn't place the Urheimat of the Lydians as he
does for that of the Etruscans/Maeonians. A scenario where Lydia(ns)
expanded from the south into the Dardanelles area would provide that.


Torsten