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personal hura, he, is doubtless composed of haw and the termination 
ra. There are few commoner words in Basque than eritsi, esteem, 
judge. The auxiliary verbs, maiz and dut, hardly appear in these 
inscriptions, but in the Eugubine Tables they abound. L7ritza, now 
deritza, is the 3 sing. pres. ind. of eritst. The final 7 of orogoyoi is 
an old dative and ablative sign. 
42. FEL: IEZOE - LAZAL 
Transliterated—ag in sa * hu ne no mo ne * sa ra no ri za 
Basque—agintza hunen amona Sarano eritza 
Translation— offering of this mother Sarano esteems 
Freely—an offering, Sarano honours his mother. 
Here agintza, meaning an offering, is unchanged. The demon- 
strative, haw, used as personal, has its genitive form hwnen. In the 
preceding inscription the genitive was unnecessary, because wga fol- 
lowed Saraku, giving the genitive of position. The word amona 
means lady mother, and is more elevated than wga and less natural. 
Sarano may be Soranus, said to be a Sabine name of Pluto. 
44, OANA: YPINAYI: YVYNAZA 
Transliterated—ma ra ka ra * ku tu u ka ra ku u- ku pi ku ka ra na re 
Basque—inarakara Kuta orogogoi jabe Kukara anre 
Translation—monument Kuta remembrance to lord Kukara’s wife 
Freely—Monument to the memory of Kuta, the wife of Lord Kukara 
This inscription has been either carelessly made or carelessly 
copied. The first character in the second word is probably pi V, 
instead of ku Y.% Also INAYT is plainly a mistake for IANYTI, a 
very common formula. The feminine name would thus read Pita or 
Vetta. The final vowel of orogogoi is a dative sign. In the Eugu- 
bine inscriptions ‘upi occurs continually as the word for a lord or 
ruler. In modern Basque it is jabe or jaube, master, dominus. The 
letter ] represents the guttural sound of the Spanish jotw in most 
Basque dialects.*. The Basque word for lady, wife, is anre, or more 
euphoniously andre, one of the commonest terms in the Etruscan 
sepulchral inscriptions. 
prominence of the mother. Thus the master of the house is etche-ko-jaun, but in order to be 
so he must be uga-zaba, perhaps uga jabe, the lord of the mother. The Japanese for mother 
is okkaa or okkaasan. The Dacotah is tka, huku, the Choctaw, ishki, the Iroquois, ista. 
43 Mr. VanderSmissen informs me that VP Pita is the reading in Fabretti. 
44The word YV kube, gopi, as it may be rendered, is one of those which seem to be the 
property of all languages, its original signification varying between loftiness and forwardness. 
Thus the Accadian has gub, high, answering to the Hebrew gabah, and gub, front. The Latin 
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