Tn turce Vel Sveitus. This was given by Vel Sveitu. (figurine of a priest; Volsinii; 4th century BCE)
Selvans Sanχune-ta cvera. Silvanus of the Oath with votive. (cippus; Volsinii; 3rd to 2nd century BCE)
natis haruspex (Etruscan gem showing a haruspex examining a liver; Volaterrae; 4th century BCE)
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2014/07/cii-307-et-vt-g1-tle-405.html
Latin: L. Cafatius., L. f., Ste. Haruspex fulguriator. Lars Cafatius, son of Lars, of the Stellatina. Haruspex (and) augur of lightning. Etruscan: Cafates Lr., Lr. Netśvis, trutnvt, frontac. Lar...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-pesaro-bilingual-inscription-et-um.html
I've been not only logging in my translations of each word into my Etruscan database but also the history of each word's translations by various authors. Sometimes there is little consensus in wh...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-history-of-translation-of-etruscan.html
In usual interpretations of the Piacenza Liver, the work of Martianus Capella is often consulted, attempting to explain one mystery with another. I continue to disagree with that method. I believ...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2014/01/boopis-and-cvl-alp.html
Gianni. The importance of being Umaele (2009) "From the linguistic point of view, Etruscan mirrors have been defined as figured bilinguals, whereby the scene with its details illuminates the mean...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/10/gianni-examines-character-umaele-and.html
There is a goddess of fate and stars named Nortia by Roman authors of which next to nothing is known save, that is, a few Roman accounts of time-keeping rituals using pegs or nails on the wall. E...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/10/examining-etruscan-goddess-nortia.html
In 2007 Derek Nurse asked: Did the Proto-Bantu verb have a synthetic or an analytic structure? He came to the conclusion that it was originally analytic. Proto-Bantu is the originator o...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/03/analytic-proto-bantu.html
Mary Beard in Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery reminds us that human history may not just be written by the victors of war but also by a few modern archaeologists corrupted by the ...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-minoan-art-and-artifice.html
At the WordReference forums someone inquires on Romanian grammar: Why "noapte bună"? The word order appears one way in bună dimineaţă 'good morning', bună ziuă 'good day', bu...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/02/good-morning-night-good.html
On the Wall Street Journal website, author Chip Walter of Last Ape Standing describes what we know about the Neanderthal's day-to-day life and why Homo sapiens were better adapted ...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-we-outlasted-neanderthal.html
The Sahelian kingdoms once stretched across grasslands (called the sahel) which bordered the interior side of the Sahara desert, gaining wealth from routes traveled by traders on c...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-sahelian-kingdoms-of-africa.html
Details on a bucchero plate discovered last year are found under New inscription from Sarteano on Rex Wallace's blog. Many thanks for his clear photo of the text. Wallace has segmented ...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-recent-sarteano-inscription-on.html
The sequence estrei alφazei appears throughout an Etruscan document called the Liber Linteus. I take this to be marked in the locative case ending in -i (with a meaning like English 'b...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/01/astara-alphaza-and-phoenician-influence.html
I'm still on a kick examining Pre-Greek terms. The topic of Greek substrate isn't complete without discussing the murky origins of the word κάνναβις 'hemp, marijuana'. Ther...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-naughty-speculation-on-word-cannabis.html
After months of slacking off, I should probably get back to work and blog something. It's not as if I ever ran out of ideas. So today I want to talk about a package of vegetable terms that seem r...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2012/12/aegean-coleslaw-anyone.html
December 23 2012 is the start of the 13th baktun according to the Mayan Calendar (using 584285 as the correlation constant). Some may have gone by the other popular correlation constant of 5...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2012/12/happy-13th-baktun.html
Carrying from my previous post, I've been thinking about tense and the workings of Etruscan grammar. Generally in world languages, I notice a tendency for temporal concepts like past, present and...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2012/08/etruscan-future-tense.html
Let's talk about the notion of a "finite verb" in Etruscan. From what I understand thus far, Etruscan has two tenses: past and non-past (aka present-future). So given a verb am 'to be', the past ...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2012/08/finiteness-tense-and-other-crazy-things.html
In the Liber Linteus, I identify a sentence in chapter 10: Ce-pen sulχva maθcva-c pruθseri. The grammar and vocabulary is pretty straight-forward and we have a typical SOV sentence patter...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2012/08/an-excerpt-from-liber-linteus-chapter-x.html
In my previous post, I've deviated away from the translation given by the Bonfantes of the Etruscan word acil as 'work, thing made' and have used the value of 'abundance' instead. Truth be told, ...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2012/08/narrowing-down-meaning-and-etymology-of.html
In the middle of chapter 6 of the Liber Linteus (aka "The Mummy text"), it reads: eslem . zaθrumiś . acale . tinś . in . śarle // luθti . raχ . ture . acil . caticaθ . luθ . celθim ...
So I'm sitting at home, browsing the net for info as I always do and what pops on the telly but a commercial for Rosetta Stone language learning software. Towards the end of it, a spunky white wo...
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2012/07/now-she-speaks-mandarin.html
There's a curious lexeme with an interesting inflection in the Liber Linteus (LL 6.xviii): caticaθ. Another similar form is found again at LL 7.xix but this time as cnticnθ....
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2012/07/etruscan-such-and-such.html