Talk:catamite

Ety

Is it really? Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌕𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌄 (catmite), from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης... How? Zezen (talk) 12:44, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

the etymology is difficult, but plausible ..... Etruscan didnt have a true voicing contrast in stops, so /g d/ > /k t/ makes sense ... they dropped the final -s because they knew what it was, and there may have been an earlier form in Etruscan that had a vowel between the /t/ and the /m/. so the only oddities are that it's /t/ instead of /n/, and the /i/. That's not bad for a transmission over a fairly long distance in this period of time .... we have plenty of other examples of words that got "mangled" in such a manner that are even closer to our day. Star names are a good example, perhaps. Food terms are another .... who'd have thought zucchini and cucurbita are cognates?—Soap— 00:14, 8 July 2022 (UTC)