# Etruscan and Raetic share grammatical endings and a numeral: genitive -s, second genitive -a, past participle -ce…

> Etruscan and Raetic share grammatical endings and a numeral: genitive -s, second genitive -a, past participle -ce beside Raetic -ku, and zal for two.

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# Etruscan and Raetic share grammatical endings and a numeral: genitive -s, second genitive -a, past participle -ce…

Etruscan and Raetic share grammatical endings and a numeral: genitive -s, second genitive -a, past participle -ce beside Raetic -ku, and zal for two.

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## What it means

Key question[To which language family, if any, does Etruscan belong?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYJMKPX84/to-which-language-family-if-any-does-etruscan-belong)

5 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Etruscan belongs to a small Tyrsenian family with Raetic and Lemnian and has no demonstrable relatives beyond it.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/answers/ANS0DEEAAG32F4Z/etruscan-belongs-to-a-small-tyrsenian-family-with-raetic-and)

Supports2 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 3

1

Compile the Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian morphological correspondences from Rix 1998, Schumacher 2004 and Eichner 2012 into a table, then test them against a null model: count how often equally specific matches arise between Etruscan and unrelated languages of similar phonology (e.g. Basque, Hurrian, Sumerian) using the same matching rules.

~16 h

[On: To which language family, if any, does Etruscan belong?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYJMKPX84/to-which-language-family-if-any-does-etruscan-belong)

**—** not judged

2

Null-model test of the Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian correspondences.

~16 h

[On: To which language family, if any, does Etruscan belong?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYJMKPX84/to-which-language-family-if-any-does-etruscan-belong)

**—** not judged

3

From the Larth Etruscan.csv (DAT0DEDXR3X5TB5), build a word-final suffix frequency table for Etruscan (-s, -l, -si, -le, -ce, -che, -a) by text type and date, as the baseline any proposed relative's morphology must be compared against.

~4 h

[On: To which language family, if any, does Etruscan belong?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/questions/QST0DEDYJMKPX84/to-which-language-family-if-any-does-etruscan-belong)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 2

[Die rätischen Inschriften. Geschichte und heutiger Stand der Forschung. 2nd edition](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMS44BB88/die-ratischen-inschriften-geschichte-und-heutiger-stand-der)

Schumacher 2004

SRC

[Rätisch und Etruskisch](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMRTJYSBZ/ratisch-und-etruskisch)

Rix 1998

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Etruscan and Raetic share grammatical endings and a numeral: genitive -s, second genitive -a, past participle -ce… [Evidence EVD0DEEBX8HHBZ0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEBX8HHBZ0
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