Re: Salt, s-/h-

--- On Wed, 10/8/08, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Salt, s-/h-
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 12:51 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...>
> >
> > 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
> ====
> This is original.
> How can we be sure that *etro is 'other' ?
>
> Arnaud
> ========

We have this odd syllable that mutates: e.g. German anderen, Latin alter-, but if it dropped, why not?