Evidence · Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated
The Lemnos stele and the 2009 Hephaistia inscription share with Etruscan the dative endings -si and -ale, a past tense…
The Lemnos stele and the 2009 Hephaistia inscription share with Etruscan the dative endings -si and -ale, a past tense in -ai and the formula for stating age.
What it means
Openunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onEtruscan belongs to a small Tyrsenian family with Raetic and Lemnian and has no demonstrable relatives beyond it.
Supports2 for, none against
Still possibleunchanged
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
—not judged
2
Null-model test of the Etruscan-Raetic-Lemnian correspondences.
~16 h
—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
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 2
La nuova iscrizione tirsenica di Efestia
SRCSimone 2009
SRC
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). The Lemnos stele and the 2009 Hephaistia inscription share with Etruscan the dative endings -si and -ale, a past tense… [Evidence EVD0DEEBXHFVCYY]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEBXHFVCYY
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0deebxhfvcyy,
title = {The Lemnos stele and the 2009 Hephaistia inscription share with Etruscan the dative endings -si and -ale, a past tense…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEEBXHFVCYY},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEBXHFVCYY}
}