Erz

The word Erz has also been attributed to a Proto-Germanic root *arutaz.

Arretium versus German Erz and how this affects (or doesn't affect) Etruscan Aritimi 2008

The word Erz has also been attributed to a Proto-Germanic root *arutaz.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

1 Pallottino, The Etruscans (1975), p.95 (see link): "Such contacts between Germany and Etruria are confirmed by the German word Erz, 'metal', which comes from the name of the Etruscan city of Arrētium, Arezzo, famous for its working on metal."

Arretium versus German Erz and how this affects (or doesn't affect) Etruscan Aritimi 2008

1 Pallottino, The Etruscans (1975), p.95 (see link): "Such contacts between Germany and Etruria are confirmed by the German word Erz, 'metal', which comes from the name of the Etruscan city of Arrētium, Arezzo, famous for its working on metal."

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

The Erz mountains were filled with minerals; the name, in fact, is the German word for “ore.”

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

Even though the samples provided only a quick glimpse, not a full portrait over time, the numbers at Slick Rock, Colorado, looked a lot like the numbers reported in studies of the Erz mountains.

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

The final assembly point was in Wiesa, a village in the Erz mountains away from main cities and roads.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

The prevalence among the miners of scarred lungs, or silicosis, also complicated the equation.3 Yet it became clear that cancer of the respiratory system accounted for 50 to 70 percent of the deaths of veterans of the Erz mines.4 In 1932, two Czech doctors published a landmark paper—in an American journal—that discussed a substance detected in the mines which they called “radium emanation.”

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

After Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898, the two physicists turned to the Erz slag heaps, which, as they suspected, contained a steady supply of the newly identified element for their experiments.

Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

However, if this is so, any distinctly Etruscan connection that Pallottino had claimed existed between the Roman urbonym Arretium and the modern German word for 'ore', Erz, is smashed.

The origin of the cityname Arretium still bugs me 2008