How To Use Etruscan In A Sentence

The cognomen Maro is in origin a magistrate's title used by Etruscans and Umbrians, but cognomina were a recent fashion in the first century B.C. and were selected by parents of the middle classes largely by accident. Vergil
It's a Etruscan hypogeum grave, built in the II century B.C. for the family of Arunte Volumnio.
Of course this is possible, especially considering that Etruscans did make use of abbreviations normally for the praenomen of the deceased in funerary inscriptions. Defining valid Etruscan word-initial clusters
The Archaic period (c. early 6th century - 480 BC) saw a great flowering of Etruscan art with the production of fine tomb paintings, funerary sculptures, and architectural terracottas.
The Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis the so-called "Mummy Text" postdates the 3rd millenium BCE and is agreed upon to have been written in a form of Late Etruscan. Archive 2009-06-01

To be even more blunt: If the entire haruspical tradition is from the Near East and related closely with Babylonian or Hittite religion which share the same practices, then why aren't Etruscologists doing the sensible thing and putting away their childish toys namely Capella's fictitious poetry and picking up a book on Babylonian or Hittite divination practices in order to understand Etruscan religion more competently? Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 4
Or consider the Etruscan habit of writing in "boustrophedon style. Archive 2006-02-01
I myself saw, in the little museum of Signor Sartoris at Primiero, a small aryballos-shaped vase of yellow clay with red ornamentation, which I should undoubtedly take to be of Etruscan workmanship, and which they told me had been found by himself in a field not far from the town. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
If Etruscan were continuously in contact with the Aegean islands through the 1st millenium BCE, then Lemnian could be an out-of-Italy dialect of Old Etruscan as is usually claimed afterall. A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
Consider the Etruscan use of letter phi, coding for the aspirate bilabial stop, which tends to mark many Greek loans: Φerse 'Perseus' and Φuipa 'Phoibe'. The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
If we interpret put as a ditransitive verb similar to tur 'to give', we can gain insight into Etruscan grammar. Archive 2008-03-01
However, if we follow instead Hesychius' testimony, the irregular Celtic reflexes can be perfectly explained through borrowing from the implied Etruscan etymon *capra with its unaspirated k-. Manly goats
During the second half of the 6th century, an enormous Etruscan-style temple (with three rooms or cellae) was built on the Capitoline hill; in the Forum Boarium remains of a large temple have been found with an Etruscan inscription nearby. D. The Regal Period
[FN#548] Burton's book, Etruscan Bologna, has a chapter on the contadinesca favella Bolognese, pp. 242-262. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians
Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one. Archive 2009-05-01
Although the Romans abominated the memory of the later Etruscan kings of Rome, a long tradition approved of both Romulus, who was renowned for the arts of war, and Numa, renowned for the arts of peace.
While Miguel Valério interprets such endings as ablatives meaning 'from', I recognize the Etruscan inessive postclitic -θi 'in'. Minoan inscription HT 104
By many this isolated rock is considered the arx or citadel of Veii; but the existence of so many sepulchral caves in it is, as Mr. Dennis says, conclusive of the fact that it was the Necropolis of the ancient city, which must therefore, according to Etruscan and Roman usage regarding the interment of the dead, have been outside the walls. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
All around the stunning, perched towns of Pitigliano, Sovana, and Sorano run hidden hiking trails carved from volcanic rock by the pre-Roman Etruscans. The Other Tuscany
The Etruscan style epitomized another aspect of the antique tradition that was Italic and not Greek, a humble realism opposed to the perfection of the Hellenic canon.
Etruscans in an art in which afterwards they attained to such marvellous perfection, and the only relics now remaining of the fictile statuary for which Veil was so celebrated. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
On Tuesday, we took our first full-day field trip north of Rome to Tarquinia and Cerveteri, the sites of two Etruscan settlements and necropoleis. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
Since the "f" sign was an Etruscan innovation, it could have been identical in name to Latin ef, or another possibility is *fau a rhyme with the digamma *vau, cf. waw. An online Etruscan Dictionary has arrived
'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for'). A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan Archive 2009-06-01
He begins by explaining the typical communis opinio, making a minor faux-pas by misrepresenting Etruscan f as a labiodental rather than a bilabial fricative. Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe
Yes, bilabial fricatives should be unsurprising, but Etruscan u-triggered lenition is however not common knowledge, so even if you personally don't find that interesting, others certainly will. Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f'
The -m would be added by the Romans to fit their declensional types, or alternatively, it could be through an Etruscan derivative with the mass noun suffix -am. A Minoan word for red dye
This sort of thing, however, is paralleled in North Germanic languages like Swedish e.g. -en in pojken or -et in huset where their definite suffixes arose in the same way that Etruscan appears to have been evolving. Enclitics and noun phrases in Etruscan
Considering the Luwian stem tawa-, it makes more sense that it was Latin that borrowed the Etruscan word and that this verb is much older than Etruscan, probably stemming right back to the Proto-Aegean parent which I situate in the Aegean islands, Western Turkey and Cyprus. Archive 2010-06-01
You tread loathingly an indescribable earthen floor, and your eye, on entering the apartment, is arrested by a nameless production of the fictile art, certainly not of _Etruscan_ form, which is invariably placed on the _bolster_ of the truck-bed destined presently for your devoted head. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one. Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe
It may have something to do with animacy whereby an inanimate noun (which hil is proven to be in Etruscan due to plural hilχva attested in the Liber Linteus) probably cannot be treated as the subject of a transitive verb and therefore is dethroned to a position after the verb to specify mere agent of the action instead (like a kind of 'afterthought', let's say) while still treated as an unmarked nominative noun. Archive 2008-04-01
It originated as the Phoenician symbol taw, which the Greeks adopted and adapted as tau, which was in turn adopted by the Etruscans and then the Romans as T.
'For the good Larth' would be more competently translated into Etruscan as either *Larθus mlac (genitive of giving) or *Larθe-ri mlac (locative with postposition -ri 'for'). A little note on Etruscan adjectives and case agreement
It's said that the Etruscans by contrast did things 'Greek-style' ie. capite aperto 'with bare head'. Archive 2010-09-01
One might understand espial which is itself a troubling hapax to refer to the father of Laris Thefarie, which is the traditional way of naming people in Etruscan inscriptions. Etruscan inscription REE 59,1993
This is because of what I've encountered as valid sound sequences and syllable shapes in more certain Minoan etyma and because of comparison with Etruscan, Rhaetic and Lemnian. Death and daffodils
This means that, as in Latin, the distribution of primary /f/ was defective in Etruscan. see linkFirst, Dosuna observes the same p-lenition as I've mentioned many timed before on Paleoglot, minus the conditioning by u. Archive 2009-12-01
Etruscan art reveals an aristocratic society in which women enjoyed an emancipated style of life.
Did it go for Samian and Etruscan ware, too, she had been wondering when the front doorbell had rung. A DEAD LIBERTY
Scholars have talked, indeed, of a Greek origin or of an Etruscan origin, and the technical term for the Roman surveying instrument, _groma_, has been explained as the Greek word 'gnomon', borrowed through an Ancient Town-Planning
The symbol of the Etruscan king's right to execute his subjects was a bundle of rods and an axe: the fasces (from which Mussolini created the Fascisti in the 20th century).
For its part, the Latin alphabet was adapted from the Etruscan, which came from the Greek, which had modified the Phoenician alphabet, which around three thousand years ago was an innovation of far-reaching and radical impact. The English Is Coming!
The names shared between Etruscan and Latin show no such palatalization either in these stops. Archive 2009-05-01
It seems practically everything of Etruscans has already been shown historically to originate from the Near East despite any denials from a few narrow-minded historians: divine hammer/mallet/labrys, haruspicy, the alphabet, architecture, pottery styles, world-view, etc. More about egg symbols in Etruria and the rest of the classical world
The overall craniodental morphology of the etruscan bear, U. etruscus, is similar to that of modern brown bears, Ursus arctos, thus suggesting that this extinct species was also omnivorous.
It's said that the Etruscans by contrast did things 'Greek-style' ie. capite aperto 'with bare head'. Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato'
Second, unbeknownst to him, several items he depends on from other academics to be facts are sadly outright fabrications: 1. There is no *safin- in Etruscan, a word conjectured from an Italic ethnonym. Archive 2009-12-01
As I've remarked before on my blog, Etruscan p consistently shows lenition to a bilabial fricative /ɸ/ whenever it neighbours the high rounded back vowel u. The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone
On page 269 of Tarquinia: Archeologia e prosopografia tra ellenismo e romanizzazione, Federica Chiesa explores the history of the Etruscan gens Sentina and states in Italian: The brief onomastic formula of this Šethre Sentina Ta 1.202 neither presents us with ulterior data nor relevance to our knowledge of the gens, which despite the nomen of an ethnic type, boasts exclusively Tarquinian attestation. Sentina, an Etruscanized Latin name
Etruscan, Lemnian, Minoan, etc. and with some even denying that such a group exists, etymologists don't seem to be getting very far here. The hidden face
Strange, I've posted exactly about this pre-Etruscan *i- deictic and its relationship to animacy, ergativity, and PIE *i- before online somewhere Yahoogroups like Cybalist perhaps? Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
A small commentbox coalition developed recently against my Etruscan translation concerning the Cippus Perusinus such that ipa in ipa ama hen agrees in case with its antecedent, tezan 'cippus'. Relative pronouns in Etruscan
The Etruscans appear to have taken very great pains with the drainage of their cities; on many sites the cloaca are the only remains of their former industry and greatness which remain. Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850
The story runs that Camillus, having carried his _cuniculus_ under the Temple of Juno within the citadel, overheard the Etruscan _aruspex_ declare to the king of Veii that victory would rest with him who completed the sacrifice. Pagan and Christian Rome
The word trinaχe is immediately recognizable by the Etruscan verb trin attested several times in the Liber Linteus and appears to be marked by passive -aχ- and preterite -e, just as we would find in Etruscan. Archive 2008-04-01
Etruscan -- "... an Athenian skyphos found in an Etruscan tomb ... Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
Strange, I've posted exactly about this pre-Etruscan *i- deictic and its relationship to animacy, ergativity, and PIE *i- before online somewhere Yahoogroups like Cybalist perhaps? Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
As for χan, since it follows the word iχ a word found in Etruscan to mean 'thus', then the aspiration can be explained as a phonetic spelling hinting at sandhi. Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1
I think it is possible to theorise the existence of such a particle purely on the basis of Etruscan words so we do not even need the evidence from other Aegean languages. Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
Even so, if Aritim really meant 'Arretium', it surely is borrowed from Latin Arrētium, and has nothing at all to do with the Germanic terms for 'ore' because the second vowel, *-u- as in OHG aruzzi, is incongruous with the phonetic reality of both the Latin and Etruscan terms. Arretium versus German Erz and how this affects (or doesn't affect) Etruscan Aritimi
This ironically includes pottery representing what you simply call "Greek deities", Etruscan Pultuce 'Polydeuces' (ET Pe S.13) and Castur 'Castor' (ET AH S.7, OI G.29, Pe S.13, Vs S.21). What are Etruscans doing with those eggs?
It is a region rich in art and Roman and Etruscan history, with a spectacular landscape of rolling green hills and mountains, trees, vineyards and hilltop villages.
It's well known that Etruscan haruspicy ie. divining the future from sheep's livers can only have derived from Anatolia where it was also practiced. More about egg symbols in Etruria and the rest of the classical world
When we clear away the junk linguistics, this alleged Etruscan sound change of f h rests solely on foreign onomastics. Archive 2009-12-01
As history progressed the Etruscans and the Romans upgraded their wreaths with precious metals such as gold, silver and gold-plated metals.
While it's complete folly to compare Etruscan to Latin nowdays considering that they're understood to be unrelated, it would be moderately forgiveable that some unfastidious academics are convinced that it means 'boy' based on Latin puer in reference to the boy Tages, even if naive from a grammatical point of view3. Pava and the 'boy' hoax
The word histrionic is derived through the Latin from an Etruscan word which means "to leap" and was originally applied to dancers. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
Deciphering writing systems, whether the Etruscan alphabet or Zapotec glyphs, is comparable in complexity to cracking the genetic code.
In this sense, the Etruscan-Lemnian group is not a real mainland Anatolian relic language, but instead a result of re-colonization from the islands. A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
Even before the vase, known as a krater, went on display, experts contended that it had been wrested illicitly from an Etruscan tomb near Rome. NYT > Home Page
The fore-edge painting could, of course, be combined with a vellum or Etruscan calf binding.
That same Cyprian reflex would remain *minyu in Etruscan to yield Latin minium which is self-explanatory. A Minoan word for red dye
Etruscan was sometimes written in boustrophedon fashion and sometimes from right to left in horizontal lines.
The descent into the Etruscan tombs must have let him feel he was commingling with his father, father and son consubstantial.
Did it go for Samian and Etruscan ware, too, she had been wondering when the front doorbell had rung. A DEAD LIBERTY
It is very tempting to see a somewhat similar development in the case of Etruscan pronouns: the merger with an initial *i- deictic. Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
The Romans adopted the Etruscan art of haruspicy as one of their ‘unofficial’ forms of divination.
The use of the primitive Etruscan style suggests a time so ancient as to be inseparable from nature.
Some linguists link fenestra with Gk. verb phainein “to show;” others see in it an Etruscan borrowing, based on the suffix -stra, as in L. loan-words aplustre “the carved stern of a ship with its ornaments,” genista “the plant broom,” lanista “trainer of gladiators.” Minimalist Christmas Update « knitnut.net
Before the coming of the Etruscans there was no advanced form of art and architecture.
‘Bimetallism… the possible effects on Roman art, had the Etruscans been bimetallists.’
All the names have been standardized to Old Etruscan phonotactics, so I write, for example, Pupuluna instead of the later variant Fufluna. Archive 2010-02-01
Gazing at their done-over barns and railroad apartments in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, one gets the definite sense that their "undecorated" spaces are a bit more decorated than our own undecorated spaces, and one secretly suspects that one's own life may not yield up the time to stumble across handpainted Chinoiserie wallpaper by the storied French firm de Gournay or antique Etruscan pottery brought back from a trip to Beirut. The Rise of the Personal
Can we perhaps explain this by hypothesizing a Mycenaean antecedent of σῦς σίαλος, pronounced with a word-initial affricate *z-, before being transfered to Proto-Cyprian ie. a pre-Etruscan stage in the late 2nd millennium BCE? Fat porkers get sacrificed
Based simply on the forms found, we must conclude with certainty that the word is overwhelmingly a noun since Etruscan adjectives, which postpose the nouns they modify just as in Modern French, for eg., are never declined unless used as nouns by themselves. Archive 2009-06-01
She explains that Etruscans too must have done rites in capite velato and that this shouldn't be assumed a priori to be from Roman dominance. Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato'
The meaning of the phrase spur-ta eisna hinθu is no mystery at all thanks to Pallotino and Bonfante's glossary: "the divine city below" (read Bonfante/Bonfante, The Etruscan Language (2002): eisna, spur and hinθu). Disproving a particular translation of TLE 193 once and for all
CE 1 to Etruscan are not just coincidental, as I've already explained, since the combined mention of something "being poured" (trinaχe) and Vulcan (Velχanu) is uncanny for a situla, which, if you followed the link to the definition is precisely used for in ritual to "contain liquid". Rhaetic and its relationship to Etruscan
Of course, Italians can't take all the credit for what is quite simply the world's best snack; as the Oxford Companion to Food points out, the linguistic link between pizza and pitta is surely no coincidence – topped breads have been popular around the Mediterranean since classical times, and Etruscans were baking schiacciata in the Tuscan region over 2,000 years ago. How to cook the perfect pizza
Since the "f" sign was an Etruscan innovation, it could have been identical in name to Latin ef, or another possibility is *fau a rhyme with the digamma *vau, cf. waw. An online Etruscan Dictionary has arrived
Why would such an important ritual drink like "wine" be borrowed into Etruscan from Latin when everything else in the religious sphere including the practice of hepatoscopy appears to go in the reverse direction? Archive 2009-10-01
It isn't completely clear why the Romans called their bodyguards satelles but some theories point back to an Etruscan word. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
In HT 16.1-2, the phrase ka-ku-pa • di-na-u, especially if approached from the assumption that Minoan is related to Etruscan, seems to show a noun followed by a participial adjective in -(a)u (nb. the Etruscan participle ending -u as in tur-u 'given') in much the same way as adjectives are placed after commodity terms in Mycenaean. Archive 2009-12-01
This is something that I'm interested in too after my recent investigation of the name Arretium, which I've begun to believe is in origin a Germanic name not Etruscan as often claimed without concrete proof despite attested Aritim-i "in Arretium". Archive 2008-07-01
As I've remarked before on my blog, Etruscan p consistently shows lenition to a bilabial fricative /ɸ/ whenever it neighbours the high rounded back vowel u. Archive 2009-10-01
The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE. Archive 2009-11-01
Although so far no one has succeeded in interpreting the Etruscan language we can fully appreciate their sculpture, painting and craftsmanship.
The same root *sub- appears to be present as in Etruscan and Egyptian and we even may be seeing an Aegean derivational suffix *-na attached. Archive 2010-07-01
This Minoan etymon is my attempt at better explaining (via expected Etruscan *caupaθ) the source of both Germanic *haubida- and Latin caput in a way that an over-cited Indo-European root (*)*kaput- just can't convincingly accomplish without fiddling with the phonetics. Archive 2010-07-01
Etruscans, Volsci, Opici, Leucanians and Samnites, in one word subjugated the whole land bounded by the Alps and repulsed all the alien tribes that came against them. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
Afterall, Latin Tages can't sensibly be a word loaned into Etruscan as Tarχies. Pava and the 'boy' hoax
Yet onomastics between Etruscan, Latin and Greek prove once again that this assumption is false since Etruscan Χalχas is borrowed from Greek Κάλχας, Paχa is from Greek Βάκχος, leχtumuza is a diminutive based on a loan from Greek λήκυθος nb. Archive 2009-05-01
No, I'm not interested in how you think that Etruscan is related to Mayan or that you took offense to my position against clumsy protolanguage reconstructions. Archive 2010-03-01
We may therefore divide Etruscan glyptography into: Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
Without reproducing it exactly, he has chosen six colours, from black and blue in the Egyptian and Etruscan / Roman rooms, to bright ochre and yellow in the Danish and French rooms.
The confusion in the long series of Etruscan galleries on the ground floor of this museum is indescribable; the vitrines are coated inside with oil and mud, and a vast number of fragile objects have been fragmented or displaced.
To add icing to the cake however there is also another instance of the name in Etruscan itself, Ruvries TLE 32, and no iota is present after the upsilon either. More comedy with the purported Etruscan name Ruifri
I've updated my Etruscan dictionary to handle asterisks ie. wildcard searches but Actionscript is a bastardly programming language so it's not perfect yet until I get around some technical issues. Apollo's Etruscan father
In the hills near Rome in 70 BC, Tarquinius, a slave proud of his Etruscan heritage and trained as the last Etruscan haruspex soothsayer, leaves the estate when his mentor is killed on the orders of a Roman noble. Archive 2009-08-01
Etruscan glyptography has not a transitional period, 140. Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.
Etruscan style with oversized eyes and the kind of nose we call Roman today. AMBERBEACH
Etruscan's default word order is SOV and caru tezan [ama] "a cippus [was] created" is the core clause that conforms to this word order. Ipa ama hen
Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one. Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe
Strange, I've posted exactly about this pre-Etruscan *i- deictic and its relationship to animacy, ergativity, and PIE *i- before online somewhere Yahoogroups like Cybalist perhaps? Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
So it seems reasonable to presume that, where it regards the specialty of divination, notoriously considered Etruscan by even fellow Romans who employed Etruscan haruspices, there should be few if any xenonyms for the native Etrurian pantheon. Archive 2009-07-01
Aeneas came back with a large army of Etruscans in time to save the camp, and furious war raged.
Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and the Romans -- should have manufactured plumbiferous bronzes, while the Phnicians carried to the people of the North only pure bronzes without the alloy of lead. Atlantis : the antediluvian world
The claret jug is an admirable specimen of one of the best Etruscan models, most graceful in outline, and yet presenting an unmistakeable appearance of solidity.
Scholars have talked, indeed, of a Greek origin or of an Etruscan origin, and the technical term for the Roman surveying instrument, _groma_, has been explained as the Greek word 'gnomon', borrowed through an Ancient Town-Planning
Did it go for Samian and Etruscan ware, too, she had been wondering when the front doorbell had rung. A DEAD LIBERTY
Then again, there are letters in the ‘model’ alphabet, such as beta, delta and omicron, which were never used by the Etruscans because their language did not include the particular sounds for which those letters stood in Greek.
Scientists have Been unable to determine signification of most Etruscan inscriptions.
In my sole view, if the letter phi is already being used to write a bilabial fricative (which sounds like "f"), then it's conceivable to me that initial /w-/ in Etruscan (written as "v") could have evolved into a bilabial approximant or voiced fricative in Rhaetic and subsequently also be represented by the same letter for its voiceless "f"-like counterpart. Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1
B.C., is a tetrastyle prostyle pseudoperipteral temple with a high _podium_ or base, a typical Etruscan cella, and a deep porch, now walled up, but thoroughly Greek in the elegant details of its Ionic order (Fig. 51). A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
Additions to the artistic repertoire include large-scale hollow-cast bronzes, Etruscan red-figure vase painting, and elaborate stone sarcophagi.
Etruscan is an agglutinative language however and so one sometimes finds more case endings attached to postpositions which are already attached to case endings! Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns
Yet regarding Massimo Pallottino's crucial list of Etruscan inscriptions called Testimonia linguae Etruscae TLE, after months of witnessing its absence on the shelf at the U of M, I was told nonchalantly by a librarian I spoke to that it was probably stolen. Phi Beta Kappa + masters degree = instant Etruscanist
In The Etruscan Language: An Introduction by Giuliano and Larissa Bonfante, first published in 1983 and republished in 2002 with little revision to speak of, the case endings -si and -le are labelled as "dative" on page 83. Bonfantes and the 'dative of agent' distraction
First, it must be known that Etruscan lacks geminate consonants. Archive 2010-08-01
As you can see in the picture above of the Etruscan bronze artwork known as the Chimaira of Arezzo which is closely related to the Greek images of the monster, only one of the three heads is that of a goat, the other two being those of a lion and of a serpent. The Chimaira chimera
The Etruscans were credited with bringing haruspicy to Rome.
The Romans had their Sybilline books and their Etruscan custom of haruspication (divination from entrails). CHANCE
One link online concerning Babylonian haruspicy i.e. the practice of divining the future through sheep livers may oddly enough help us shed some light on Etruscan rites, beliefs and cosmology: Sacrificial divination: Confirmation of extispicy. Piacenza Liver and The Palace Gate
Esus is also part of a Celtic triad involving Taranis and Teutates, which again can be matched perfectly with Etruscan Tinia Thneth 'Tinia of Thunder' and Tinia Cilensl 'Tinia of Darkness' respectively. The 'god' word in Europe
I came across this while reopening the case concerning the etymology of Arretium, a town in NE Etruria, which I can confidently say is unanalysable in the Etruscan language, despite Arretium being purportedly founded by the Etruscans themselves... but this is a slightly separate issue. Minoans, Greeks, the Po Valley and Arretium
The system of this kind of superstition had been principally developed by the ancient Etruscans, and the haruspices engaged in the state religion of the Romans were generally natives of Etruria; and the Romans, owing to the uncertainty of their knowledge of things divine, dreaded this kind of superstition rather than practised it. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
This is a fact, not an assumption - the assumption part is that this undeciphered Cretan language and Etruscan are related. An online Etruscan Dictionary has arrived
Voice is irrelevant here although you're correct that Etruscans devoiced foreign voiced stops. A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus
Bayndor: "In this sense, the Etruscan-Lemnian group is not a real mainland Anatolian relic language, but instead a result of re-colonization from the islands. A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
Some linguists link fenestra with Gk. verb phainein “to show;” others see in it an Etruscan borrowing, based on the suffix -stra, as in L. loan-words aplustre “the carved stern of a ship with its ornaments,” genista “the plant broom,” lanista “trainer of gladiators.” Minimalist Christmas Update « knitnut.net
Additionally, kalahe pru would yield two unidentified words while kala hepru yields only one since kala is relatable to Etruscan cala and its postfixed counterpart -cla meaning "of this". Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1
The most common Egyptian amulet was the scarab, made in the form of a sacred beetle, and this design continued to be used in early Greek and Etruscan work.
However I have a fresh entry just itching to be written about the Etruscan Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a sheep's liver created for the ritualistic practice called haruspicy in order to divine the future. Itching to crack the Piacenza Liver soon
(The krater belonged to the ancient Etruscans, but they of course imported it from Greece.) A Celebrity in Low-Key Digs
There's no question to me then that Etruscan phonotactics simply barred the glide from word-initial positions altogether. Archive 2010-02-01
Athenian skyphos found in an Etruscan tomb at Chiusi, and at present in the museum there. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
Etruscan was obviously not an Indo-European language and was unrelated to Basque.
Do you succeed to integrate the Etruscan noun marish Steinbauer translates as boy; servant into this Italic scenario? Getting the origins of Mars and Vulcan right
But Etruscanists are also generally aware that caru is a transitive participle meaning 'made'; tezan means 'cippus' see Paleoglot: The Etruscan word 'tezan'; tesnś is a declined form of tesiam ~ tesian 'sacrifice'; teiś is the directive form of ta 'that, the'; and Raśneś is likewise the directive form of Raśna 'Etruria'. Ipa ama hen
To express the numbers '11' through '16', Etruscans used the numerals of the first decad followed by the word for '10' which is śar. A possible relationship between 'four' and 'eight' in PIE
The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE. A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
If we only assess the problem from within the specialized bubble of the narrow Etruscan field, internal -u- before bilabial m can easily be explained away as a reduced form of original *-e-. Etruscan Artemis and the unexpected vowel change
The exhibition organisers have preferred to explore the social, political and religious mechanisms of the Etruscan confederation of city-states.
I've been working on word etymologies in Etruscan and I'm finding that some origins of certain words are hard to determine. Archive 2010-07-01
By changing two letters, we can see how things could have been misinterpreted: an original lambda may look like an upsilon, an original theta may look like an Etruscan ef. Is Etruscan muifu even a word?

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