TEST
19 July 2022
News, Alia, Etymology, Faliscan, Greek, Latin, Marrucinian, Messapic, Oenotrian, Oscan, Paelignian
No Comments
TEST aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Category: Oscan
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 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
No Comments
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 …
More on the Oenotrian inscription from Tortora
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 …
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 …
The influence of Latin on Oscan. Part three
Some Oscan inscriptions discovered in Capua, dating to the 3rd century B.C., refer to mysterious objects called diúvila-/iúvila-. Interestingly, all the dedications written on the “iovilas” antedate 211 B.C., …
The influence of Latin on Oscan. Part two
Even though the Oscan-speaking aristocrats were inclined to learn Latin, there is solid evidence, however, that, at least on the eve of the Social War, they actively tried to …
The influence of Latin on Oscan. Part one
According to Livy (40, 43, 1), in 180 B.C. the inhabitants of Cumae asked Rome’s permission to speak Latin in public assemblies and to make sales in Latin (Cumanis …
Voiced s in the Oenotrian inscription from Tortora. Part two
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 …
Voiced s in the Oenotrian inscription from Tortora. Part one
In his analysis of the Oenotrian inscription from Tortora, Paolo Poccetti (see Maria Letizia Lazzarini-Paolo Poccetti, Il mondo enotrio tra VI e V secolo a. C. Atti dei seminari napoletani …
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 …
Italic languages: original unity or contact?
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 …
Oenotrian amates. Part three
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 …
Oenotrian amates. Part two
Because of its antiquity, αματες is in itself a strong argument for classifying it together with historically attested –t– (e.g. Paelignian coisatens, Marrucinian amatens, Volscian sistiatiens) and –tt– perfects (e.g. …
Oenotrian amates. Part one
In my major degree dissertation, I dealt with the reconstruction of the Palaeo-Italic inscription from Tortora, one of longest Pre-Samnitic texts. Since Pre-Samnite is a vague category, covering virtually …
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” …
Two examples of blurred identity
Welcome to my blog! In my first post, I would like to mention a famous testimony regarding Ennius. According to Aulus Gellius (17, 17, 1), he described himself as …