Or the final is changed as in 'nup' neck, from Irish 'muin'. Using the simplest method of disguising words, that of spelling or pronouncing certain Etruscan words backwards some interesting results can be obtained by using Latin and in a few cases Greek to explain word formation. We must keep in mind that Etruscan possessed only the voiceless stops k, t, and p, they changed the letters g, d, and b when these appeared in Greek, Latin, or Umbrian. In the eigth century B.C. the first major city in Italy to which the Etruscans were exposed was the Greek port city of Sybaris, it also became their major trading partner . This scenario would leave Lat.
C represents both the Lat.
Etr. cars ' , Lat. Etruscan has two words for mirror, one which is mal ena, is transposed from Lat. The other Etruscan word denoting mirror is malstria, which appears to be composed of the Etr. On the shorter version of the Etruscan-Punic bilingual inscription from Pyrgi, Etr. cleva has been translated from the Punic version as referring to a precinct or enclosure built for the goddess Athena. Cleva or cleua is possibly derived from Lat.