Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

That was a progressive tendency in Etruscan. Early
Etruscan does tend to show vowels while the later
inscriptions tend delete all vowels except the initial
ones suggesting that Etruscan either eliminated most
non-inital vowels or reduced them to schwas or
unvoiced vowels


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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> > 2. Attic is stressed on the first -o-
> > I expect **prusup or pursup ?
> > not phersu
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> "Accented" is not the same as "stressed". One would
> expect something
> like *pVrusup[] in Etruscan, with initial _stress_;
> the Greek pitch
> accent doesn't matter, nor does Etruscan preserve
> the original phonation
> of stops in Greek borrowings. *pHerusup[] (with an
> anaptyctic vowel) >
> *pHersup[] (with syncope) is quite thinkable.
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> Piotr
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> Initial "stress" in Etruscan is a speculation
> based on the fact that Etruscan does not display
> vowels after the first syllabe.
> We can also account for this, with consonantal
> writing.
> Arabic does not have initial stress...
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> And even if this speculation were right,
> there still is no reason why Pursup is not possible.
> Your "thinkable" explanation is teleological.
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> Arnaud
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