From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58933
Date: 2008-05-29
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallisterPerhaps if someone has the wherewithal to do a thesis
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> > Although Etruscan had no voiced stops, or at least
> its
> > alphabet did not, there are Latin words with
> voiced
> > stops that purportedly came from Etruscan. Off the
> top
> > of my head, I can think of balteus, the source of
> > English belt. Would these words have been more
> likely
> > to have originally been aspirated or non-aspirated
> > stops in Etruscan or would it have been impossible
> to tell?
>
> It's difficult to say. Etruscan often interchanged
> aspirates and
> non-aspirates. I haven't been able to spot any
> patterns to it. I
> wonder if aspiration was even phonemic.
>