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Which Etruscan kinship words can scholars identify with confidence?
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Scholars can identify several Etruscan language kinship terms with confidence because these words appear frequently in the surviving texts. The identified terms include:
- ati: mother1
- clan: son1
- sec: daughter1
- puia: wife1
While the language remains largely undeciphered, these specific kinship designations are considered certain by researchers.1