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Of course, the Bonfantes make little effort to justify any of their assertions on the language, save a few of their suspect examples like raχθ tura claimed to mean "Prepare the incense!"

The imaginary Etruscan imperative in -thi 2007

So what about the example of raχθ tura supposedly meaning "Prepare incense!"

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

Of course, the Bonfantes make little effort to justify any of their assertions on the language, save a few of their suspect examples like raχθ tura claimed to mean "Prepare the incense!"

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

This phrase is attested at LL 2.xix and it's clear from a professional examination of this entire linen text and by taking into account what we can be sure of the Etruscan language that tura is a derivative of tur "to give", hence it can't reasonably be proven to mean "incense" but it no doubt refers to an "offering" or "gift" based on the self-evident etymology of the word.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

So what about the example of raχθ tura supposedly meaning "Prepare incense!"

The imaginary Etruscan imperative in -thi 2007

This phrase is attested at LL 2.xix and it's clear from a professional examination of this entire linen text and by taking into account what we can be sure of the Etruscan language that tura is a derivative of tur "to give", hence it can't reasonably be proven to mean "incense" but it no doubt refers to an "offering" or "gift" based on the self-evident etymology of the word.

The imaginary Etruscan imperative in -thi 2007

You can see a dialogue in Quechua in this drawing "Cayllata acullicuy, pana" 'Chew this coca, sister' / "Apomoy, tura."

languagehat.com: GUAMAN POMA. 2005

And the languages are arranged more or less by family (though Finnish takes pride of place), so that you can compare, say, all the Turkic names; surprisingly, the words for 'rook' vary tremendously: Turkish kale, Azerbaijani top, Uzbek ruh, Tatar lad'ja (borrowed from Russian), Chuvash tura, Tuvin terge.

languagehat.com: CHESS WORDS. 2004

In Wilhelm Feldmann's Wspólczesna litera - tura polska (“Contemporary Polish Literature,” 1905) contemporary poetry is discussed as “decadentism” but

Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968

After discussing the rationality, design, and providential character of the cosmos as a whole and its inanimate and animate parts, the Stoic, “Balbus,” presents his arguments “that the human race has been the especial beneficiary of the immortal gods” (De na - tura deorum II, 54-66).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968