# 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…

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# 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.

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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

[La nuova iscrizione tirsenica di Efestia](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMS9YNSF9/la-nuova-iscrizione-tirsenica-di-efestia)

Simone 2009

SRC

[Neues zur Sprache der Stele von Lemnos (Erster Teil)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDPCQA88RA/neues-zur-sprache-der-stele-von-lemnos-erster-teil)

Eichner 2012

SRC

## Cite it

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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
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