Etruscans (was: minimal pairs)

[Rick Mc Callister]

[ Moderator's note:
  Rick Mc Callister is responding to a posting by Steve Gustafson dated 1 Feb
  2001.
  --rma ]

Isn't cuius cognate to English <whose>?

[snip]

>Early Latin shows at least one further Etruscan-like feature.  Pronominal
>genitives like -cuius- (OL -quoius-) which in CL functioned as genitives
>only, were in early Latin pressed into service as adjectives, so that where
>in one instance you had -quoius servos-, elsewhere you could see -quoia
>serva-.

[snip]

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701