Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extinct Indo-European language known from short inscriptions in Veneto dating from the sixth to the first centuries BC and possibly belonging to the Italic branch.
- adjective Of or relating to Venetic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Veneti, or to the Venetians.
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- adjective of or pertaining to the Veneti people, their language or culture
- proper noun An extinct
Indo-European language that was spoken in ancient times by the Veneti tribe in the North-ItalianVeneto and modernSlovenia , between thePo River delta and the southern fringe of theAlps . It should not be confused withVenetian , aRomance language presently spoken in the same region.
Etymologies
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Apart from the more recently discovered branches, there are also a number of weakly attested languages, including Venetic, Messapic, Illyrian, Thracian, and Phrygian.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Apart from the more recently discovered branches, there are also a number of weakly attested languages, including Venetic, Messapic, Illyrian, Thracian, and Phrygian.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Paleoglot: Etruscan tular and a Venetic look-alike skip to main
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This theory would then presuppose something like Venetic *kaubitos 'head'.
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Lately, being more focused on the obscure, ancient Northern Italian languages previously mentioned, I've noticed a Venetic verb variously spelled toler, tolar or tuler, and translated as a 3ps form of 'to bring'.
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The Venetic verb is often cited by Indo-Europeanists as an example of a mediopassive relic in -r- with connections to Italic and Anatolian branches.
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For example, we could take Etruscan ais 'god' to be a very early Italic loanword, perhaps from Umbrian, yet there is also Venetic aisu- 'god' to ponder on.
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In the latter case, there's an attested potential intermediary in Venetic ahsu sometimes transliterated aisu because of the similarity between "h" and "i" in Venetic script in inscriptions Gt 1 and Gt 2.
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Taking this for granted, it interests me that the first languages to greet Etrusco-Rhaetic would have to be Venetic, North Picene, and Umbrian.
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However this Venetic verb is tempting to link to the Etruscan look-alike, isn't it?
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