Re: R: [tied] Etruscans

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 51214
Date: 2008-01-12

Antonio,
 
thank you for the attractive and informative link.
 
Patrick
 
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See the posts from Ed Robertson on this list. In any case, Etruscan is clearly not connected with other languages in Italy.
Best regards
Antonio Sciarretta
http://xoomer. alice.it/ asciatopo/ etruria.html
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Arnaud
 
Cher Monsieur Sciarretta,
 
In your explanation of Etruria, you seem to replace the "mysterious" Etruscans by another mystery "Pelasgians" , so I am afraid this doesn't help understand who Etruscans were.
 
Another point is : the place-names or river-names you give all seem to have a rather acceptable etymology, either using Italic languages, or Celtic or this XX (pelasgo-etruscan) . So the consequence is there is no lexical substrate at all in Etruria,
When Italic and Celtic arrived and if we assume that Etruscans also arrived from somewhere else, there were no inhabitants in Toscana.
Or we have to assume that Etruscans precisely are the substrate.
 
Arnaud
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