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Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time.

Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns 2010

Bayndor: "Indeed it is hard to imagine a language with just 4 declensional cases and without pre- or postpositions in the same time."

Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns 2010

In that case, mliθu and mliθuns would merely be two declensional forms of the same word and we'd no longer have an irritating hapax of mystery hampering our translation efforts.

Is Etruscan muifu even a word? 2010

I agree that some of the words used might have been simple postpositions like '*-pi', while the others fully-fledged declensional cases.

Grammar of Etrusco-Lemnian nouns 2010

The -m would be added by the Romans to fit their declensional types, or alternatively, it could be through an Etruscan derivative with the mass noun suffix -am.

A Minoan word for red dye 2010

In that case, mliθu and mliθuns would merely be two declensional forms of the same word and we'd no longer have an irritating hapax of mystery hampering our translation efforts.

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

And restricting ourselves only to PIE and internal reconstruction of PIE, I've also already stated that a deictic postclitic with added support from real-world languages which do the same sufficiently explains the marked nominative in PIE without contorting the entire declensional system to eke out an ergative suffix so that you can fantasize about Hurrian links.

Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud 2009

Information is a mere click away on the net and if you were honestly knowlegeable in Hurrian than you'd have surely read Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor 2008, p.94 which gives a clear summary of the Hurrian declensional system.

Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud 2009

The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

In the Dreros #1 inscription, we may certainly doubt that these two words represent different declensional forms, although they could be related somehow if the twice-repeated Greek stem turo- is any indication.

A new value for Minoan 'd' 2009