The Armenian Origin of the Etruscans

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...that oiav-il. Compare also rah-il and r-il with nih-il and n-il. Arm. aral-dt, 'time.' Georg. roloi, 'a clock;' rli, 'to run.' Welsh rhi, ' what intervenes;' rhif, 'what divides, a number ' rhil, ' an interstice, ' i.e., 'an interval (of space): ' 'a year' is 'an interval (of time).' Leine, 'vixit'. Arm. linel, 'to be, to become, to exist, to live.' Hung. lenni, ' to be;' leny, 'existence.' Lapp. lei, 'erat, ' = Arm. liner. Germ. leben. Gael. linn, 'an age, a period.' Alb. lyeig, 'I am born;' lyind, 'I give birth to.' Leine, from its form, would rather be compared with the Arm. present, lini, 'he is, ' than with the imperf. liner, 'he was.' Linel has no perfect. Words apparently implying Relationship. Klan (passim). Man... Gael. clann, 'offspring, descendants.' Welsh plan, 'a scion;' plant, 'a son.' Gr. icXae, icXaSoe, Kxiov, Kxolw, pXa., rXaw. Lat. planta. Manx cleih, 'people;' clein, 'a clan;' cleuin, 'a son-in-law;' cleuinys, 'affinity;' cloan, 'children;' cluight, 'offspring.' A more recondite and perhaps a better interpretation of Man is given by Miiller (Mr-usker, v. i. p. 446). He compares the two inscriptions on the same monument--La. Venete La. Lethial1 etera Se. Venete La. Lethial klan and observes: 'If etera be taken to mean ' other, second, ' Man must be 'first, firstborn.' Etera is thus compared with the Gr.?T jOoe, Umbr. etre, Arm. otar. Dr. Donaldson argues in the same manner (Varronianus, p. 171): 'If then etera means, as is most probable, the second of a family' (just as Arm. mivs, 'other, ' does signify the second son of five--St. Martin, Memoires, v. ii. p. 174), 'klan must mean the first or head of the family.' This might bring us to the Arm.--klan.. Arm. glovM, 'head, summit, the first rank;' glkhan zovkn (lit....show more