Brinton.] O-^U [Oct. 18, 



ril, to live, lived; ril avll, " vixit aniios ;" a year, E. 



^tamnos (da/ivo^'), a horse. 



tular, a stone ; a monument ; public, D. ; tomb, E. 



tur-, to give, to make an offering. 



tiv-s, moon, month. 



trvtnvt, a soothsayer, Lat. " haruspex." 



tesan, a dedication ; ten. 



usil, sun, day. 



'^ verse, ^xt; ''averte." 



(fleres, a statue, an image ; an offering. 



nefts, grandson ; probably Latin '' nepos." 



netsvis, augur. 



nipe, cup, vase. 



nesl, a grave, a sepulchre, '' mortuus," E. 



nacnva, a grave, a tomb. 



spura, town, city, commonwealth, ''res publica, " D. , con- 

 queror, P. 

 sey, daughter. 



svthi, sepulchre, tomb, burial place, D. ; " it is," P. 

 sicOic, property ; it belongs to, P. 

 sval'Ce, to live, lived. 



There are a number of these words which, I think without strain- 

 ing, may be explained from Libyan roots. I take them up in the 

 order in which they are arranged in the vocabulary : 



Aesar, a god. This may be derived from the Libyan (Tuareg) asr, 

 light ; esati, lightning ; as deus from deva, the bright, the 

 shining one. The lightning is the constant accompaniment 

 of the chief Etruscan deity. 



Atikelos or ankelos, the dawn, the daybreak. This appears cer- 

 tainly to be allied to the Kab. verb akker, to rise ; Oenker, 

 the sunrise, the dawn. 



Ataison, the vine ; Kab. Osa. 



