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Re:New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have found... by gumby on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:52AM (#28682155)
I is funny how few words (more proper nouns though) survived into (or were absorbed into) Latin. One of my favorite Latin words, Uxor, is an Etruscan loan word.

I have always loved it for its alien sound, and then later for its meaning.

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