Evidence
Rix assumes a date for Proto-Tyrsenian of roughly 1000 BC.
Cognates common to Raetic and Etruscan are:
- Etr. zal, Raet. zal, "two";
- Etr. -(a)cvil, Raet. akvil, "gift";
- Etr. zinace, Raet. t'inaχe, "he made".
- a genitive suffix -s in all three languages;
- a second genitive suffix -a in Raetic, -(i)a in Etruscan;
- the past active participle -ce in Etruscan, -ku in Raetic.
Cognates common to Lemnian and Etruscan are:
- dative-case suffixes *-si, and *-ale, attested on the Lemnos Stele (Hulaie-ši "for Hulaie", Φukiasi-ale "for the Phocaean") and in Etruscan inscriptions (e.g. aule-si "To Aule" on the Cippus Perusinus).
- a past tense suffix *-a-i (Etruscan <-e> as in ame "was" (< *amai); Lemnian <-ai> as in šivai "lived").
Strabo's (Geography V, 2), citation from Anticlides attributes to Pelasgians of Lemnos and Imbros a share in the foundation of Etruria. The Pelasgians are also referred to by Herodotus as settlers in Lemnos, after they were expelled from Attica by the Athenians. Tyrrhenians anciently in Lemnos are instanced by Apollonius of Rhodes in his Argonautica (IV.1760), written in the 3rd century BC, in an elaborate invented aition of Kalliste/Thera (modern Santorini): in passing he attributes to "Tyrrhenian warriors" in the island of Lemnos the flight of "Sintian" Lemnians to the island Kalliste.
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