Category: Umbrian
I find it likely that the Oscan formula kúnsíf deívúz ‘the divine ones approving’, which occurs in the inscription coming from the sanctuary of Pietrabbondante, has a parallel in the phrase aisos pacris …
In my previous post I dealt with the correspondences between Sabellian and Latin in juridico-sacral speech. On the basis of the textual evidence available to us, there is …
An unsolved problem of Italic historical phonology is the explanation of the Oscan adverbial form πεhεδ (Lu 13) ‘piously’, as well as of the related words in Sabellian and …
Immediately after receiving my major degree, I resumed my research on the Oenotrian inscription from Tortora, expanding and sometimes revising my previous analysis of the same text. Even though …
The use of <σδ> in the Oscan inscription from Messina I have already mentioned (see my post Voiced s in the Oenotrian inscription from Tortora. Part one) stands out …
Sabellian or Osco-Umbrian is one of the two subgroups into which the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family is divided, the other being Latino-Faliscan. Despite their many similarities …
The use of one verb (αματες/amatens) with the same value in the inscriptions I have already mentioned (see my posts Oenotrian amates. Part one / Oenotrian amates. Part two) and …
The Latin playwright Titus Maccius Plautus was actually an Umbrian from Sarsina, in modern-day Emilia-Romagna, and the name by which he is better known was a nickname meaning “flatfoot” …
