ar-, aril

Steinbauer 1999a:369 claimed that the Etruscan verb ar- ‘to make, do vel sim.’ (for which, however, he also argues for a meaning “hochheben, halten, (Kinder) aufziehen”) and its derivative, aril (what he translates as “Atlas”) are loanwords from Luwian āriya- ‘to raise’ and *ariyalla/i-. Oettinger 2010a:241f. supported this analysis (“vielleicht” and (!) “relativ sicher”). However, as Simon (Simon 2021c:232) pointed out, aril is an internally derived action noun (not an agent noun) and, accordingly, it has completely different translations. Thus, what remains is only the formal similarity of the verbal stems (also the semantics are problematic, on the Etruscan verb see Simon 2021c:232, on the Luwian one see now s.v.), which, in view of their very short form, is not enough to establish a loan and lacking any further assured Anatolian loanwords in Etruscan, this similarity can simply be attributed to coincidence.

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