vina

While others have arbitrarily assigned the meaning of 'vineyard' to the Etruscan hapax vinac, I prefer to pay proper attention to the larger context from which it comes, the phrase vina-c restm-c, which more sensibly reads as 'both wine and lees'.

The diffusion of the Italian terms for 'wine' from Etruscan 2009

While others have arbitrarily assigned the meaning of 'vineyard' to the Etruscan hapax vinac, I prefer to pay proper attention to the larger context from which it comes, the phrase vina-c restm-c, which more sensibly reads as 'both wine and lees'.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

All indications are that vina is a ritual offering, no doubt simply a libation of wine.

The Etruscan vineyard has longer vines than I thought 2009

We must put methodical grammatical analysis before willy-nilly tripe from the start: the noun phrase vinac restmc is properly segmented as vina-c restm-c once we accept the obvious that they're both extended with the common conjunctive -c, giving us the two direct objects of the subsequent transitive participle cenu 'brought'.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

We must put methodical grammatical analysis before willy-nilly tripe from the start: the noun phrase vinac restmc is properly segmented as vina-c restm-c once we accept the obvious that they're both extended with the common conjunctive -c, giving us the two direct objects of the subsequent transitive participle cenu 'brought'.

The Etruscan vineyard has longer vines than I thought 2009

All indications are that vina is a ritual offering, no doubt simply a libation of wine.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

[TCap xv]; cenu [CPer A.x], canu [TLE 775] show us bluntly that vina- should never be interpreted as a type of property without ripping the delicate semantic web of the Etruscan language to shreds.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Any reasonable translation must then be of the form "Both vina and restum were brought."

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Dar nu exista nici o libertate deplina fara responsabilitate, caci asta inseamna democratie, Libertate si RESPONSABILITATE, si nu e nevoie de lege politica pentru asta, nu putem da vina in totalitate pe guvernare, desi ... e praf!

Declin al societatii 2009

The remaining is a suffix -um which is fortunately attested a few times in what appear to be abstract, uncountable derivative nouns expressing concepts of mass or material as in meθlum 'people' (from *meθil 'group') and vinum 'wine' (from vina, also 'wine').

Archive 2009-07-01 2009