=(u)m

Steinbauer 1999a:377f. compared Etruscan =(u)m ‘and, but’ with Hittite =ma and Lydian =(u)m ‘dto’. Contra Steinbauer, De Simone 2012a2012:374 asked what is the sense to compare these forms (without elaborating his criticism). In fact, the comparison is formally possible, but particles of such an extremely short form can easily coincide in unrelated languages, which can be illustrated exactly with this case, too, cf. e.g. Italian ma or Hurrian =(m)ma of the same meaning. Accordingly, the comparison would have relevance only if there is independent evidence for Anatolian loanwords in Etruscan, but this is not the case (contra Steinbauer 1999a:366–389; Beekes 2002a:cols. 221–226; Fortson 2010a:275; Oettinger 2010a:241f.; Kloekhorst 2012c:50; Schrijver 2019a:321).

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