Latin perfects and Fluent Etruscan in 30 days!

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Damien and IEists:

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From: Damien Erwan Perrotin <114064.1241 at Compuserve.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:14 PM

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> [Damien Erwan Perrotin]

> The idea is interesting, but probably inexact as am- is not present only
> in Latin but also in Lydian (ama : to love) and in Breton (afan : to
> kiss from an older Brythonnic *ama). It is still possible that the
> Lydian form was a borrowing from an Etruscan-like tongue of the Aegean,
> but that is quite unlikely for Breton. So there can be only three
> explainations for the ressemblance you point out :
> a: chance ressemblance (always possible)
> b: Etruscan borrowed the word from Latin or from Celtic
> c: Etruscan is remotely linked to IE and this root is a remnant of this
> old relationship.

> Personnally, I favor the third thesis, but there is still work to do
> before proving it.

Pat comments:

Some might be interested in Egyptian jm-3, 'kind, gentle, well-disposed,
pleasining, gracious, be delighted, charmed', which I believe is likely to
represent an AA example of the same root.

Pat

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