1890.] 



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[Brinton. 



LIBYAN. 



calavien, 



camars, 



canapus, 



carcasen, 



cullen, 



cuilan, 



cusin a, 



gamas-oran, 



gantal, 



ierna, 



Hasan, 



irius, 



mas-, 



narti, 



sacoma, 



sarzun, 



s artifan, 



succur, 



sucrus, 



tamazu, 



tanadus, 



tanin, 



tarincus, 



tor, 



tumudan, 



tursus, 



ETRUSCAN. 



calu. 



camals. 



canpnas. 



carkna. 



clellu. 



c' Ian. 



cusinei. 



camas. 



caneda. 



herina. 



las a. 



fortunes. 



mas-. 



nortia. 



secune. 



sertuna. 



sauturin. 



seccu. 



secis. 



tavia. 



tanna. 



tania. 



tarchnas. 



tarsu. 



iumu. 



tursu. 



The word clan in the above list appears on a hundred or more 

 Etruscan sepulchral inscriptions. It has been generally translated 

 "son" (see Miiller, Die Etrusker, Bd. i, p. 502, note of 

 Deecke). Sometimes it appears as klan, or simply cl ; clen is an 

 occasional variation. 



In this word the vowel of the first syllable has been syncopated, 

 as Deecke has pointed out was exceedingly common both in pure 

 Etruscan words and those drawn from the Greek (see his note and 

 examples in Miiller, Etrusker, Bd. ii, p. 2>IZ)' The full reading 

 should therefore be kel-an. This explanation discloses at once the 

 sense of the word by means of the Libyan tongue. There the word 

 kel means household, one family, those dwelling in one tent or 



