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> I will restate what I have previously written.
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> PIE *d is Basque and Etruscan l :
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> To eat *H1ed :
> Basque Hel Hal
That can't be right because of
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You're jumping to the conclusion
a little bit too fast.
Orthodox PIE *d has to be split in two :
*d and *t
Now,
I tend to think that the Etruscan alphabet
*cannot* be inherited *thru* Greek
A major reason is Etruscan has
a extra letter between n and p
as in Hebrew (ts?)
that Greek does not have
This is why I think
ETruscan is from Phoenician
with no intermediary
and the value is Semitic
So that theta is t? (t?ot)
to sit
PIE *sed
Etr satH = sat?
heaven, moon
PIE *deiw
Etr tivr
=> Loanword ?
to build
PIE dem
Etr t(H)am
> Number ten *dek
> Etruscan alkh
I agree that Etr alcH is ten, and further that Etr sar (usually
translated as 10) is something else, possibly 12 (plural of sa, 6).
However, I'd reconstruct the number as *atl'&k (tl' is an ejective
lateral affricate).
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I think *dek = l_x
Another example is
hupe "lying"
= Latin cub-are
Now
the question is not just
grabbing for words.
The changes must account for the system.
Unvoiced *k = x
***AND***
Voiced *b = p
The whole logic of correspondences
counts **more**
than individual "grabbings".
It shows that there was a proto-system
and this system proceeded to a new stage
thru logical processes
that accounts for all phonetic series.
Arnaud
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