πŒ…πŒ„πŒπŒ€πŒ”

Messapic

Etymology

Uncertain. Likely borrowed from Italic, perhaps Latin Venus. Alternatively, it may be directly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wΓ©nh₁os, whence also Sanskrit vΓ‘nas. However, if the term was directly inherited, it would require both Italic and Messapic to have independently shifted the term into the feminine gender and reutilized it as a theonym.[1]

Proper noun

πŒ…πŒ„πŒπŒ€πŒ” (venas) f (nominative singular)

  1. Venus, Aphrodite
    • MLM 3:
      [𐌊]πŒ‹πŒ€πŒπŒ‡πŒ‰ πŒ†πŒ‰πŒ” πŒ…πŒ„πŒπŒ€πŒ”
      [k]laohi zis venas
      • Translation by Simona Marchesini
        let Zeus and Venus hear

References

  1. ^ Michele Bianconi; Marta Capano; Paolo Sabattini (21 May 2025), β€œA new assessment of Messapic vocalism: Sound change, script adaptation, and synchronic phonology”, in Indo-European Linguisticsβ€Ž[1], volume 13, number 1, β†’DOI, β†’ISSN, page 20
  • Marchesini, Simona (24 October 2023), β€œThe Messapic Inscription from Grotta Poesia MLM 3 Ro: Analysis with Frame Semantics”, in Cassio, Albio Cesare, Kaczko, Sara, editors, AlloglΠΎΜ„ssoi: Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europeβ€Ž[2], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, β†’ISBN, page 291
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