ETRUSCAN AND PRE-GREEK INDO-EUROPEAN ‘PELASGIAN’

ETRUSCAN AND PRE-GREEK INDO-EUROPEAN ‘PELASGIAN’ Iurii Mosenkis Ancient authors underlined close relations between the Etruscans and Pelasgians, and the thesis has an etymological support in the parallels of Etruscan words in the satem substrate in Greek named Pelasgian

Etr. thesan ‘dawn, dawn goddess’ : Gr. thoos of “Pelasgian”, i. e. pre-Greek IE origin. Thito Etr. puia ‘wife’ : Gr. ὀπυίω ‘to mariage’; Latin puella1 Lat. Silvanus < Etr. Selva2; Etr. Selvansls3, Selvansl4 < Gr. silenos, silanos ‘silenus’ while Lat. silva < Etr. < Gr. *sule > hule / xule < *skule ‘wood’ Etr. tev-, tv-, tva ‘to show, to see’ : Gr. thev- ‘to show, to see’ < pre-Greek IE or : Luw. dawi- ‘eye’5 Cret. Ϝελχανός > Etr. Velkhans ‘spring god’ and velci ‘March’ > Latin Volcanus / Vulcanus : Old Ind. ulkā’ ‘torche’6. If Etr. Aita < Gr. Aides is depicted in the wolf-headed hat7 then the Etruscans associated volk- ‘wolf’ and volk-an- ‘Vulcanus’, i. e. the Etruscan name of a wolf was similar to the name of Volcanus. The name of Vulcanus was related to PIE *ulk- ‘wolf’, according to V. I. Abaev. The names of the Etruscan sculptor Vulca8 and the Etruscan haruspex Volcatius9 may be also compared. The names of Luwija and Lukia might be also hypothetically related to the root10. Etr. Uni : Gr. Ἰνώ, Latin Iuno11; Iu-no : Iu-piter = Indra : Indrān.ī, Old Ind. rā’j- ‘king’ : rā’j-ñī ‘queen’, Old Irish rí, gen. ríg ‘king’ : rígain ‘queen’ < IE suffix fem. The name of Cortona / Croton town is derived from the name of the Cretan town Gortuna12. Croton was founded by the Pelasgians = the Tyrrenians13. The founder of Cortona was Etruscan Tarchon14.

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Г 1958, с. 188 TLE 719b 3 TLE2 696 = CIEW 7696 4 CIE / CIEW 2403 5 СИИЯРС 1982 с. 35 6 Kretschmer, P. Einleitung in die Geschichte der Griechischen Sprache. 2, unveränderte Auflage, Göttingen; Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1970, S. 133. 7 Немировский А. И. Этруски: От мифа к истории, М.: Наука, 1983, с. 4, 205. 8 Plin. N.h.; Немировский А. И. 1983, с. 230. 9 Немировский А. И. с. 190 10 Георгиев В. И. Исследования 1958, с. 157 11 Polišenský, M. B. The language and origin of the Etruscans, Transal Book, Prague, 1991, p. 42 12 Cf. Гиндин 1967, с. 157. 13 FHG I Hell Lesb. frg. 1; Немировский 1983, с. 22. 14 Gn. Gell. frg. 7 P; Немировский А. И. 1983 с. 214 2