Etruscans (was: minimal pairs)

[Steve Gustafson]

Rick McCallister wrote:

> Isn't cuius cognate to English <whose>?

I'm pretty sure it is.

FWIW, the declined -cuius- may have survived in Romance, assuming it is the
original of Spanish cuyo/cuya, again meaning "whose."   AFAIK, in strictly
Classical Latin it appears only as an indeclinable genitive.  It is hard to
say whether the Spanish is a survival or a newly minted re-analysis.

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