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Oumerian k-an)8kmbachos helmet, from "ittite kupa i headgear8kmbalon cmbal, from "ittite u upal wooden percussion instrument8 mlbdos lead, $cenaean mo-ri-wo-do, from mork -io- dark, as in dian mariwda( )-k thedark ones8br'a vessel for refining gold, from "ittite upru i vessel8 tolpq ball of wool, from "ittite taluppa lump (or uneiform uwian taluppa4i).Trrhenian substratumedit+Mn the basis of statements in Thucdides that Trrhenian was a former language of %thens andthat the Trrhenians had been e!pelled to emnos, it has been suggested that the substratelanguage was related to emnian, and thus b modern association to truscan.

Mther possibilitiesedit+The possibilit e!ists that the source ma be more than one of these possibilities, or thatvocabular ma have entered the Proto-Greek language before its speakers actuall reachedGreece and its pre-Indo-uropean population. onfusingl, the words wCna! (#king#) andwCnassa (#ueen#), terms that would be e!pected to originate from a local prestige language orsuperstratum, also ma appear as natak (#lord#) and nasi (#lad#) in the Tocharian languages,spoken far to the east b a people not known to have ever visited Greece.

Oee alsoedit+Proto-Greek languageteocretanteocpriottruscan languagePelasgiansTrrhenian languagesOicel language