Re: [SPAM] Re: [tied] Re: Salt, s-/h-

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 60686
Date: 2008-10-08

On 2008-10-08 19:40, Arnaud Fournet wrote:

> I did not know we have such a good knowledge of Osco-Umbrian.
> I thought most of it was inferential.

_Some_ of it is, but different case-forms of the word (<etru, etre,
etram(-a), etraf, etres> occur in clear contexts in long and well
understood Umbrian texts, such as the Iguvine Tables.

As for its origin, <etr(o)-> reflects the pronominal element *(h1)e-
with the contrastive suffix *-tero-, the same as in Lat. alter or Gmc.
*anþeraz.

Piotr