Taranis
Elite member
Yes Taranis, You're right related to Albanian "q" (although in Gheg Albanian, as a general rule there is no "q"). My idea consists mainly in the role of the Albanian negative prefix "s" or "sh" (note that this negative prefix does still exist in Latin languages too, but in Albanian it is widely used. In Etruscan it has been used more widely than in nowadays Albanian).
Compare for eg. Albanian "shpreh" (express) or "shprehem" (express oneself) and German “sprechen” (speak); Albanian "shpik" (invent) and English "speak", as well as Italian "spieg/are" (express) and German "spieg/el" (mirror) where the role of prefix "s" (or "sh") is quite clear.
Sorry no. It seems, I'm afraid, that despite all the stuff I have posted here, you still cling to your old ideas, especially the (thoroughly debunked) idea that Etruscan was somehow related with Albanian. I've demonstrated clearly that Albanian is an Indo-European language, a very unique one at that with a highly distinctive set of sound laws, one that has borrowed many loanwords from languages it interacted with. But it has nothing to do with Etruscan, which is beyond any doubt a non-Indo-European language. In fact, I can say with certainty that with all the many languages Albanian borrowed words from (Classical Greek, Latin, East Germanic, Slavic, Turkish, etc.), Etruscan is not one of them.
German "Spiegel" comes from PIE *spek´- (to look), and is a cognate with Latin auspex, spectare, aspicere
There are many Indo-European root words which begin with *sp-, but the *s in there has nothing to do with a negation.