Latin perfects and Fluent Etruscan in 30 days

[Adolfo Zavaroni]

Rick Mc Callister wrote:

>   Thanx for explaining your position re Etruscan and IE. I was a bit
> mystified by your many comparisons to Germanic.
>     Do you see Etruscan as from Rhaetia?
>     Or do you suspect that Northern Italian IE was closer to [or had
> more traits in common with] Germanic?
>     Or do you perceive a common substrate in N. Italy, the Alps and
>  Germany?

1) According to some sources, Etruscan and Raeti were
autochthonous (let's drop the legend that Etruscans came
from Lydia and the Georgiev's unreliable attempts to
demonstrate that Etruscan and Hittite are cognate;
I wasted two years in trying to find an Anatolian origin:
it was vain, also because of my scarce knowledges).

2) Livius (I do not remember exactly the passage) says
that Raeti were Etruscan who took shelter on the Alpine
valleys, but it is more probable that they were there
from time immemorial.

3) My interpretations starting from the hypothesis
"Let's suppose that the Etruscan words are borrowing
from archaic (Indo)European languages and viceversa"
match many Germanish lexemes, but also Celtic
(certainly 3 years ago my knowledge of Gaulish
and Celtic language was lower), while the comparison
with Latin and Osco-Umbrian is vitiated by the fact that
in general scholars are inclined to think that the direction
of the borrowing is the direction from "already-known"
(Latin, Umbrian)  to "unknown that has to be explained".

4) Several Venetic words (and other inscriptions of the
nearest areas) are explained by means of comparisons
with Germanish roots and others with Celtic roots.

Conclusion: the "easiest" explanation is that a wide area
of Central Europe was occupied by peoples whose
languages were similar (common substrate). Most of their
lexemes passed to Proto-(Indo)-European languages,
of course in different quantities.

One could find the roots belonging only to the ancient
Italic languages, to Germanish and possibly to Celtic
and then to check if they are attested in Etruscan.
In this period it is above my possibilities.

 Adolfo