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Spanish Documents Relative to the Canary Islands. 



No. XX. anoma B. ano, portion and ema, given, 



bite-zar B., envoy, 

 no B., sign of genitive, 

 ranono B. ra7io, towards, 

 zari in B., agint-zari, biirii-zari, a captain ; Japanese kashira, Semitic sar, 



Sclavonic czar, Teutonic kaiser, etc., etc., a universal word, 

 beka, form of B. bekoki, front, forehead, a chief. 



No. XXI. beka, see above. 



No. XXII. osa, old form on Iberic inscriptions of the Isle of Man. Its root is o as in 

 B. o-artu, to give attention. In Japanese it is iiya-niai, and also means 

 " to give reverence." Here it denotes, sa, the person giving o, atten- 

 tion, to the flocks. 



atherbe B., shelter. 



obi B., grave, pit, cave. 



ate B., door. 



edate B. edatu, extend. 



udahate is not B. udahaste, a synonym of udaberri, spring, but, as nda-herri 

 is literally "new summer," so uda-kate will he "end of summer." 



ambera, now B. ainbertze, as many as. 



beheitu, B. beheiti, to lower. 



mopira, Etruscan 8. See the writer's Etruria Capta. 



ardizain B. , shepherd. 



No. XXIII. nausi B., master, more commonly nabusi. 

 non, Etruscan "who." 



No. XXIV^ oroi B., to remember, iuWev oroitu. 

 am for amar B. ten. 

 ahal, al B., power, authority, 

 urte B. , year. 



No. XXV. jabe, see No. II. 



No. XXV^I. osa, see No. XXII., here employed as veib ; perhaps it should be written 



o-fsti. 



No. XXV 11. abere B., cattle. 



aberabe, survives in apurtii, apurtien "baisser. " 



kama, evidently denotes one who has the care of sheep and other cattle. 



The writer does not know it as Basque. To keep domestic animals 



in Japanese is kai-oki. 

 lerrozarri B. lerro, a rank, and ezarri, to place, 

 mopi-ka, Etruscan mopi, 2, and B. ka, by. 

 obeka B. obeki, better, 

 athedatu for B. itoitea, or ateratzen, 

 ari B., ram. 

 almena B., power, vigour. 



