Re: Salt, s-/h-

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60679
Date: 2008-10-08

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From: "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...>
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> A parallel is <Etru:sci:> (length shown by <Etru:ria>) which has
> nothing to do with <Tursa:noi>, <Turskom>, <Tusci:> (shortness shown
> by <Toscana>). The only acceptable explanation I have seen is by G.
> Alessio, who derives the name by haplology from Old Umbrian *Etro-
> rous-ko:s 'Otherlanders'.
> Douglas G. Kilday
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This is original.
How can we be sure that *etro is 'other' ?

Arnaud
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