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19 July 2022
News, Alia, Etymology, Faliscan, Greek, Latin, Marrucinian, Messapic, Oenotrian, Oscan, Paelignian
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Category: Etymology
Four takeaways from ‘Oscan kúnsíf deívúz and the Di Consentes’. Part three: the possible equivalence Oscan kúnsíf deívúz / Marrucinian aisos pacris
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 …
Four takeaways from ‘Oscan kúnsíf deívúz and the Di Consentes’. Part two: the possible equivalence arsmo uiro / arma virumque and uiro…fri…salua / salve…frugum…virum
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 …
Four takeaways from ‘Oscan kúnsíf deívúz and the Di Consentes’. Part one: more on the Italic koine
In the following blog post I would like to mention a brilliant article, ‘Oscan kúnsíf deívúz and the Di Consentes’, co-written by Benjamin W. Fortson and Michael L. Weiss, …
The phonology and etymology of Oscan pehed ‘piously’ and related forms
26 January 2017
Etymology, Greek, Latin, Marrucinian, Oscan, Paelignian, Phonology and phonetics, Umbrian, Volscian
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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 …
Some remarks on the word “Oscan”
The word “Oscan” is used in two different ways: it is used as an ethnonym originally referring to a population, the Oscans, who inhabited Campania before the expansion of …
Oscan aflukad
The Oscan verb form aflukad occurs twice in the text of the Defixio Vetter 6 (also known as “The Curse of Vibia”) and is the third person singular of …
Plautus, ploti-plauti, plavtad, preplotatu: some etymological connections
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” …