From: Rick McCallister
Message: 60694
Date: 2008-10-09
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>I've seen so many attempts to shoehorn all the forms together by connecting to Gr. túrsis, that I was wondering if they could be shoehorned the other way
> Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [tied] Re: Salt, s-/h-
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 7:33 PM
> On 2008-10-09 01:16, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > 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- ?
>
> Why the metathesis? (Etruscan speakers had no particular
> problems with
> /tr-/). Why should the initial vowel heve been lost? Is
> there any
> evidence of *tru:s- anywhere? (the vowel should have been
> long at this
> stage, as it was in <etru:s->). The connection
> between
> Turs-ko-/Turs-e:no- and Gk. túrsis 'tower' is of
> course highly
> speculative, but at least makes sense formally.
>
> Piotr