1889.] '^^S [Brinton. 



The modem Libyan for tioo is sin; for three, karat (in the 

 Gdhames dialect, kalat ; in Bilin, sadu ox salii); four \x\ xwoA^xw 

 • Kabyle is akoz, which may be remotely connected with the word 

 for four in the eastern dialects of the Hamitic family (Coptic, /(?(9/^ 

 ^.xidiftoii); six in Kabyle is sez, in the ancient dialect of the Guan- 

 ches (Canary islands), sas-etti, evidently identical with the old 

 Coptic sas. 



With these restorations I would place the two alphabets side by 

 side as follows, showing the consonantal roots at the base of the 

 numerals in accordance with the spirit of the Hamitic languages : 



Archaic Etruscan. Archaic Libvan-Haniitic. 



S'n. 



S^l. 

 F'^t. 

 F"s. 



S^'s. 



The similarity here displayed appears to me quite convincing 

 that the Etruscan, if not a Libyan dialect, was certainly a branch 

 of the Hamitic family, with closer relations to the Libyan than to 

 the eastern dialect of the family. 



It would be profitable to continue this comparison between the 

 Libyan and Etruscan into the domain of proper names, geographi- 

 cal, personal and tribal, for which there is considerable material. 

 At some future time I hope to accomplish this, but at present I 

 shall confine myself to two prominent examples, one, the native 

 names of the Etruscan people, Rasena, or Etrusci, the other, the 

 name of their hero-god or mythical tribal ancestor. 



The historian, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, states that they called 

 themselves " Rasena,'" and the forms rasn and rasnia^xo. found on 

 inscriptions, in connections where the signification "people" or 

 "folk" would be suitable.* On the other hand. Dr. Pauli be- 

 lieves that there is strong testimony that their native name began 

 with turs, which, by elision of the vowel and adoption of a suffixed 

 e, became Etrs-ci, or more fully Etrusci.^ 



*Bas'an, populus ; rasena, popularis ; ras'nia, Etruria, are the proposed renderings of 

 Pauli. AltitaliscJie Sludien, 18S4, p. 60. 



t " Das vorgeschlagene e ist im Etruskischcn melirfach nachweisbar. Etrusci = Etrsc 

 = Tursci— dies ist ein Beweis das der einheimische Name der Etrusker rait turs begann." 

 Pauli, Elrusk. Forsch. und Sludien, 1882, p. 18. 



