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verbal conjugation
111. 3rd pers. sg. perfect (or aorist)
-ke
-ce, -e
LATIN/ITALIC
vocabulary
ETRUSCAN
144. capio “to take (away)” capi-
145. esuna- “offering” aisna-
146. idus (middle of the month) etul-
147. kletram “bier” cletram
127. leo “lion” lev
148. lustrum “lustrum” lurs-
149. magister (magistracy) macstrev-
150. maro- (magistracy) maru-
151. mundus “bothros” mun-
129. morior “to die” mur-
152. munus “offering, tribute,
duty”
munist-
105. nepos “grandson” neft-
153. patina “plate” pana-
154. pro-nepos “great-grandson” prumt-
155. ritus “rite” rita-, ri(a)-
135. spondeum “cup for pouring spanti “libation
a drink- offering” bowl, plate”
156. subulu “fluteplayer” suplu
157. suus (reflexive pronoun,
3rd pers.)
sva-
158. teneo “to hold (a magistracy)”
en(u)-, ten(u)-
159. touto-, tuta- “people” uta-, tu-
46. vinum “wine” vina-
The salient points from this list are the following:
(1) Correspondences of Etruscan with Hittite have a
bearing on vocabulary alone: hence Etruscan is
not to be identified with Hittite, as Vladimir
Georgiev wants to have it.
(2) Considering the fact that the correspondences of
Etruscan with Luwian hieroglyphic outmatch all
other categories, Etruscan shows the closest affinity
with Luwian hieroglyphic. Note especially that
the shared use of the endings of the N(m/f) pl. in
-i and D pl. in -ai exclude a particularly close relationship
with cuneiform Luwian, which is
characterized by N(m/f) pl. -nzi and D pl. -nza.
Yet another feature which stresses the relationship
of Etruscan with Luwian hieroglyphic is the phe-
139
verbal conjugation
160. 3rd pers. pl. passive pres. -n(a)ur (now also
-ntur
Agostiniani & Nicosia
2000: 54 (=
Tabula Cortonensis,
section III)
161. infinitive passive -ri -ri
vocabulary
PHOENICIAN/HEBREW ETRUSCAN
162. Asherah Aisera (note that this
of old inherited form
of the Phoenician divine
name Astarte
needs to be distinguished
from Astrein
the inscriptions on
the Pyrgi gold tablets,
which is an ad
hoc attempt to render
‘štrt in the Phoenician
version of the
text)
142. krr “month of the dances” urvar, urve, uru
163. mlh
“beautiful” mla (G mlakas)
164. slt- “power” seleita- “sultanate”
Etruscan with Luwian hieroglyphic is the phenomenon
of rhotacism of the dental, as attested
for the onomastic element tiwat/ra- and the ending
of the Abl. sg. -t/ri.
(3) Nevertheless, Etruscan is not to be identified as a
dialect of Luwian hieroglyphic, as it shares the
loss of the N(m/f) sg. -s and A(m/f) sg. -n in the
realm of the noun with Lycian, which also provides
comparative evidence for the A(m/f) pl. in
-es or -is. To this comes that Etruscan shows some
evidence of the typical Lycian phonetic development
[s] > [h] in the case of the verb hamai-
/amei- “to found” < cuneiform Luwian samnai-.
Another deviation from the Luwian hieroglyphic