Brian, people have been spatting over those dice for a
> long time. No Etruscan dictionary I know includes <thu>,
> 'one', though you may, of course, be right.
I've yet to run into anyone whom I considered likely to be
knowledgeable about Etruscan who *didn't* accept <thu(n)>
'1'; the real question, as I understood it, is whether <sa>
is '4' and <huth> is '6', or the reverse. Something that I
read in a snippet of the Bonfantes' book available through
Google Books suggested that there was some independent
evidence pointing towards <sa> being '4', but I've no
details.
Brian
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Larissa Bonfante in
La naissance des écritures, Seuil,
clearly has
thu "one"
thunz "one time"
I think there is no doubt that
thu is "one".
An interesting point is
the theta might write a glottalized
sound not an aspirated one.
If you accept the comparison
with Chinese dan4 < *t?ox-an
Arnaud
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