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

--- On Wed, 10/8/08, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [tied] Re: Salt, s-/h-
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 5:46 PM
> On 2008-10-08 23:27, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
>
> > Do we have other examples of the suggested
> word-formation ?
> > etro-rous-ko : Adj + nom (neuter) + ko
>
> As for ethnic names with *-(i)ko-, we have the Osci (Gk.
> Opikoi) and
> Falisci, as well as other Italic tribes: the Volsci,
> Marruci, Hernici,
> Labici and Aurunci. The fact that in *et(ro)rous-ko- the
> suffix is added
> to a compound is of little importance. The name of the
> country
> (*et(ro)rousja: > *etru:zia > Etru:ria) happened to
> be a compound --
> that's all that there is to it.
>
> Piotr

Let me risk a pie in the face on this one. The *turs- forms are often related to a word for "tower.". What is the chance they could be a bastardization of *etrus- > *trus- > *turs- ?