Brinton.] 4b fFeb. 7, 



recorded by Corippus as the Jupiter of the Libyans in the sixth 

 century A. D. In his lines referring to the gods they invoked on 

 entering battle, he writes : 



" llastiman alii ; Maurorum hoc nomine gentes 

 Tsenarium dixere Jo vein.' '—Johannidos, Lib. vii, 307. 



The name Mas-timan is compounded ot the common Libyan 

 (and Etruscan) prefix of grandeur mas, and timan, in which the n 

 in Tina has changed into m, a permutation frequent in the Moroc- 

 can (Rifian) dialect of Berber, in which the mini of the Arabic 

 alphabet is often substituted for the nun* The terminal n in so 

 many of the Libyan names given by Corippus is thought by Halevy 

 to be often an extraneous addition to the native form.f 

 Turin s, the Etruscan Mercury. 

 Turan, goddess of love. 

 Tarsu, a mythical Gorgon. 

 T'ruisie, a hero god. 



In these and similar Etruscan names we appear to be in the 

 presence of the exceedingly common ancient Libyan radical TR, 

 seen in the inscriptions in such names as Toura, Touran, Tir-mag, 

 Tor-dak, Tour-sha, etc., and in Corippus' poem in Tor, Tur-sus, 

 etc. 



The prefix used thus frequently in both dialects is likely to be a 

 term of reverence, affection or amplification. It does not appear 

 current in modern Berber. In its dialects the syllable means a 

 height, a hill or mountain, dar, adrar (pi. darati) ; tareelit, a hill. 

 The transfer of the idea of physical to social elevation is common 

 to all languages (son altesse, his serene highness, etc.), and may be 

 at the base of the meaning here. 



Usil, the sun-god of the Etruscans, was portrayed with rays 

 around his head and a bow in his hand (Miiller, Etrusker, Bd. ii, 

 p. 80). As I have remarked in my previous essay, the Libyan 

 word for the sun at high noon is as/. 



§5. Names of Persons. 



The Etruscans were accustomed to employ both individual and 

 family names, and in some instances all three of the names in use 



* Basset, Manuel de Langue Kabyle, p. 9. 



t " La terminaison n est une particularity de la prononciation puniquc des expressions 

 libyques." Essai, p. 121 



