arsmor

Unknown:

• Poultney suggests a Proto-Italic form *ad-mōr-, although the linguist Nicholas Zair considers this impossible as /d/ shifts to /rs/ only when placed between vowels in Umbrian.
• Unterman suggests a Proto-Italic form *ado-mo-, although Zair considers it unlikely for the suffix *-mo- to be added to thematic stems.
• Zair suggests that a Proto-Italic form *adi-mo- or *adu-mo- is more likely than *ad-mo-. Although, he concedes that there is no comparative evidence for this proposal and it is unlikely to be cognate with Middle Irish adma.
• Zair suggests that a Proto-Italic form *arsmo- is more likely than any form prefixed with *ad- as he considers it unlikely for the sequence /rs/ to emerge from /d/.
• Bader suggests that a form *ard-smo- and *ard(i)-mo-. Bader connects this with Latin ōrdō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to fit”). Zair considers the former suggestion to be possible assuming the loss of /d/, although he considers the second possibility to be unacceptable. Zair suggests however, that the appearance of /d/ at all in the root is inexplicable.
• Perhaps connected to the Ancient Greek ἄρσιον (ársion), Ancient Greek ἀνάρσιος (anársios), and Ancient Greek δίκαιον (díkaion). Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rs-mo-.
• Zair suggests that the term refers to herds of cattle; he suggests it may be cognate with Latin armenta. He proposes that both terms originate from a root Proto-Indo-European *ar-smṇ-, suffixed with *-mn̥. He proposes that the Latin term derived from a substantivized neuter which resulted in the suffix -mento, while the Umbrian derived from *ar-smo-, from *ar-smn-o-. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-.

arsmor n (nominative plural) (late Iguvine)

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. sacred ordinances, religious rites, priesthoods
   2. assemblies (equivalent to Latin curia)
   3. institutions, political institutions, social institutions
   4. herds of (large) cattle

The linguist Nicholas Zair interprets the term as netuer.

• (accusative plural) l.Ig. arsmo

• Poultney, James Wilson (1959) The Bronze Tables of Iguvium‎^[1], Baltimore: American Philological Association
• Nicholas Zair (2024) Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology‎^[2], volume 1, Stockholm University Press, →ISBN, page 258
• Lionel S. Joseph (1986) “A Survival from the Italo-Celtic Legal Vocabulary”, in Ériu‎^[3], volume 37, →ISSN, pages 119–125