The Etruscan word nefts
| Word | nefts |
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| Meaning | nephew, grandson |
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Latin: nepōs
‘grandson, nephew’ Lemnian: naφoθ ‘nephew, grandson, descendant’ |
| Synonyms | papals |
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Comments |
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| Probable borrowing from a Sabellic language in which the medial consonant cluster *-pt- developed to -ft-. A similar form is also found in Lemnian which means that the loan occured at a very early stage. | |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| clan ‘son’, huσ ‘child’, atrs ‘parent’, apa ‘father’, ati ‘mother’, huσur ‘children’, σeχ ‘daughter’, puia ‘wife’, ruva ‘brother’, ata ‘grandfather’, atrś ‘house, family’, fetiu ‘fetus, offspring, child’ | |