Talk:List of English words of Etruscan origin

message: I removed atrium because most current references (all that I've seen) support (while often with some reservation) the derivation from PIE *ater-, 'fire, blackened, etc.'. This etymology is backed up by classical references (cf. Servius), but more important, according to some historians, the hearth was often located in the Roman atrium. The Etruscan idea largely derives from Varro, who wrote that atrium derives from the name of the Etruscan town Atria, where supposedly the atrium-style originated. Alexander 007 23:56, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atrium 

message: I have capitalized each word as per the general convention in a dictionary entry. --Bhadani 08:25, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: General convention of what sort of dictionary? Sounds like an ancient Old English convention. I've decapitalized it back to normal because this is English not German. Names are capitalized; general nouns (even in a list such as this) simply aren't. --Glengordon01 06:53, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalized

message: It would really be nice if this article had some citations. Its just a list of words that the reader has to take on faith are of Etruscan origin. There are few if any etymologies, and none are sourced. 
I wanted to add a few cites, so, as with most articles that discuss etymology, I started with the online dictionaries: namely, Random House, Merriam-Webster, and The American Heritage Dictionary (I used to use Oxford too, but I no longer have subscription). I also started with antenna, the first word in the list. None of the three dictionary etymologies lists Etruscan. Fine. I went to the Etruscan Glossary and did indeed find that supposedly antenna, antemna  "sailyard" came from Etruscan; however, I cannot find their bibliography, and as a lowly non-Etrurophone and a linguistic layman, cannot decipher the string of characters ("[mp68: 369, pa]") after the entry. 
Now, I have read some of the talk, and I realize some of you do not have a high opinion of the dictionaries; however, it would help if you put in some of your citations too. Thanks. --SigPig 14:13, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cites? 

message: The online etymology dictionary disagrees with this wikipedia article by stating the etymology as follows:
sentinel: 1579, from M.Fr. sentinelle, from It. sentinella, perhaps (via a notion of "perceive, watch"), from sentire "to hear, perceive," from L. senire "feel" (see sense). 
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sentinel
Thus, I hereby call the word's satnal-root into question.
:I think you're referring to satellite. Ben Finn (talk) 17:42, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  sentinel? 

message: The article says, antenna is ultimately from Greek, therefore (though it may have been borrowed into Latin from Etruscan), antenna is not an Etruscan word and should not be on the list. Likewise other words ultimately from Greek, which were borrowed into Latin from Etruscan, should be removed too. The word appearing in Etruscan is just a stage, like it appearing in Latin, French or English. Should we count it as a Latin word? No, and we should not count it as Etruscan either.
86.165.139.232 (talk) 09:14, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antenna 

message: Antenna's most solid attribution is Latin, and even in this page it links ultimately to Greek. Its inclusion is as preposterous as the exclusion of "person," which is recognized as likely Etruscan in origin by all major etymological dictionaries.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheInimitableKaka (talk • contribs) 00:51, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antenna/person