Etruscus

Etymology
From or related to (compare Tuscus). Probably related to 🇨🇬, and Ancient Greek, , from , , itself of pre-Indo-European origin, in which case might be a native Etruscan word simply meaning "tower people" (as opposed to the Rasennae, see below). See Τυρσηνία.

Helmut Rix, based on the distinction made by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, assumed that, (nomen), , derived from the original  name, while Rasna (from Etruscan , and whence ), like populus, originally designated the part of the population of Etruria which had political responsibility.

Vladimir Georgiev suggested that the word had the same root as and, but Philip Baldi notes that "though superficially attractive, these claims do not stand up to linguistic scrutiny, with the unexplained E [...] and the spurious metathesis of r and the following vowel in Gk. Τυρσηνοί just two of the problems."

In the past, other scholars have proposed that the term might be.

Adrian Room compares other language isolate ethnonyms, such as Basque, hinted by the -sc- element found in, , and older Latin forms of 🇨🇬; see Liguria.

Adjective

 * 1) of or pertaining to Etruria, Etruscan

Noun

 * 1)  one of the people of Etruria, an Etruscan