# The combinatory method, applied systematically to the whole corpus, can still add secure meanings, and it is the only…

> Still possible: The combinatory method, applied systematically to the whole corpus, can still add secure meanings, and it is the only internal method…

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Answer · Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated

# The combinatory method, applied systematically to the whole corpus, can still add secure meanings, and it is the only…

The combinatory method, applied systematically to the whole corpus, can still add secure meanings, and it is the only internal method that has ever produced accepted results.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- A quantitative distributional analysis of ET will reproduce the accepted meanings and propose new ones that hold on held-out texts.
- New inscriptions will continue to confirm or refine guessed meanings at a measurable rate.

## What would rule it out

- Distributional proposals for unglossed words fail on held-out inscriptions at chance rates.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Every Etruscan meaning accepted today, from the numerals to the kinship terms and magistracies, was reached by…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/evidence/EVD0DEECM29EG3G/every-etruscan-meaning-accepted-today-from-the-numerals-to)

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FOR

[After more than a century of combinatory work about 250 words are secure, and the long texts still cannot be…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/evidence/EVD0DEECMW76YM0/after-more-than-a-century-of-combinatory-work-about-250)

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NEUTRAL

## The questions it answers

[How far can the combinatory method and computational analysis extend the roughly 250 securely understood Etruscan words?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYMXF5X5P/how-far-can-the-combinatory-method-and-computational)

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