Fluent Etruscan in 30 days! (was: Latin perfects)

[Steven A. Gustafson]

Rick Mc Callister wrote:

>         Adolfo Zavaroni's version of Etruscan in I documenti etruschi
> suggests links to Germanic --but (as I remember) he sees Etruscan as an IE
> language
>         He uses linguistic comparison in a way that the Bonfantes rail
> against BUT his idea that Etruscan <z> /ts/ & <s'> correspond to IE /st/ is
> interesting
>         I don't know how Zavaroni situates Etruscan in IE, though

>From the vocabulary we know, there are a number of other coincidences.
A Greek gloss mentioned in Bonfante, don't have the reference handy,
gives -capys- as the Etruscan word for "falcon."  This would be *capu or
*capus in the standard alphabet of the inscriptions.  This is a possible
sister to -hafoc-, OE for "hawk," with cognates in most Germanic
languages.  My understanding is that this too is one of those odd words
in Germanic that seems to be non-IE.

>>   -aisar-, Etruscan for
>> "gods;" cf. ON -aesir-, "celestial gods."  Both Etruscan and Germanic
>> had plurals in -aR, which in the case of Germanic represents *-az.

>         Someone pointed out to me that ON aesir was from *ansar [or
> something similar]

This is true, but my question would be: does *ansar represent a widely
attested word for a deity, or is it another of those strange Germanic
ones?