Copyright 1996 by H. T. Bryer
RETRO-LINGUISTICS
| may be a missing principal in the accepted rules governing how words were
formed. It matters not that it occured for reasons of secrecy, as in the case of the
Druids and Etruscans for many of these words have come down to us and can only be
explained through retrolinguistics. Retro-Iinguistic formation may explain these Latin
words of *unknown origin which heretofore have not been connected with Etruscan: *CAUPo from PAUCus *SPATium > TOPOS *SAGitta >GHAISo *CATena > TEXum *TUBus > BOTulus *CAPSO > PUXos *TEMporis > METor *SEQUI > QUES *FURor > RABer *PRAVus > VERPa |
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