# Every Etruscan meaning accepted today, from the numerals to the kinship terms and magistracies, was reached by…

> Every Etruscan meaning accepted today, from the numerals to the kinship terms and magistracies, was reached by internal comparison, bilinguals and…

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# Every Etruscan meaning accepted today, from the numerals to the kinship terms and magistracies, was reached by…

Every Etruscan meaning accepted today, from the numerals to the kinship terms and magistracies, was reached by internal comparison, bilinguals and glosses, and none by etymology.

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## What it means

Key question[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)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[The combinatory method, applied systematically to the whole corpus, can still add secure meanings, and it is the only…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/etruscan-language/answers/ANS0DEEBFT5WB66/the-combinatory-method-applied-systematically-to-the-whole)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Next steps 1

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Run a distributional (co-occurrence and position) analysis over the Larth/OpenEtruscan corpora restricted to pre-1991 ET texts, propose meanings for frequent unglossed words, and score them on the c. 1,100 texts added in ET 2014 as a held-out set.

~20 h

[On: 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)

**—** not judged

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

## Sources 3

[Testimonia Linguae Etruscae. Second edition](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDM18DWPSC/testimonia-linguae-etruscae-second-edition)

Pallottino 1968

SRC

[The Etruscan Language: An Introduction. Revised edition](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDM0VDSX35/the-etruscan-language-an-introduction-revised-edition)

Bonfante 2002

SRC

[Zikh Rasna: A Manual of the Etruscan Language and Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKQRT230M/zikh-rasna-a-manual-of-the-etruscan-language-and)

Wallace 2008

SRC

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Every Etruscan meaning accepted today, from the numerals to the kinship terms and magistracies, was reached by… [Evidence EVD0DEECM29EG3G]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEECM29EG3G
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