The Etruscan word spanti
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| Transliteration | spanti |
| Meaning | plate, dish |
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Homeric Greek: σπένδω
‘make a drink-offering’ Hattic: išparuzzi ‘plate, slab’ |
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A large flat dish. It has been connected with Hittite išpantuzzi ‘libation-vessel’ which has an IE root *spend- 'to make an offering' that also survives in Italic languages cf. Latin spondeō. |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| vinum ‘wine’, pruχum ‘jug, vase’, alφazei ‘barley, flour, kind of bread, barley-cake’, alśase ‘salted, salty’, amer ‘cup, bucket’, burrhοs ‘kantharos, cup’, caperc ‘cup, vase’, capra ‘urn, ossuary, sarcophagus’, caθna ‘bowl’, caθn- ‘basin, tray, bowl’, cilva neri ‘mead’, culcna ‘cup’, cupe ‘cup’, eleivana ‘olive oil, jar for ointments’ | |