Jan 22, 2025
We have pretty good understanding of at least a few hundred Etruscan words, much less so Rhaetic, Lemnian or Camunic, its sister languages. Mind you, Etruscan caused a superstrate influence on Latin, and through the latter on many modern languages; for example, words such as "person" or "belt" have distinctive Etruscan origin, and their etymology could be traced in a reliable way.