Etruscans (was: minimal pairs)

[David L. White]

> Like the Germans who must have spoken PIE with a terrible
> brogue, the Etruscans seem to have done great phonetic violence to Greek
> words they imported.  Klytaimnestra = Clutmsta,  Herakles = Hercle,
> Menelaos = Menle, Polydeuces = Pulutuk, Diomedes = Zimite.

        Also "Aplu".  But are these names really Greek, in the sense of
having IE etymologies?  I have heard that of the Greek gods only Zeus is IE.
Perhaps we have (in some cases) not mangling but borrowing from a common
source.

Dr. David L. White