Re: Origin of the Etruscan people?

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:48:14 +0100, Italo <olati3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>rondonoplis@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> The Greeks called them "Tyrrhenoi," the Romans, "Trusci," or "Etrusci."
>> They called themselves "Rasenna" or "Rasna."
>
>I wonder if the term Rasna/Rasenna could be from the same
>root as Hebr."'erez", "(people of) the land/earth".
>
>http://studylight.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number=0776
>http://studylight.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number=0772
>
>From what I know about the etruscan language, it has a structure and
vocabulary (as little as it is known) that is entirely unrelated to
any other language known in Europe and northern Africa. (I wish they
would find more documents - like the Etruscan text that was later used
in Egypt to wrap a mummy, I think it is called the Zagreb codex)

fkoe

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